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Re: linux XF86 X visuals, IDL 16-bit blues [message #18749 is a reply to message #18739]

Fri, 28 January 2000 00:00

Liam E. Gumley
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Registered: January 2000

Senior Member

John-David T. Smith <jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu> wrote in message
news:3892266F.910D10B6@astro.cornell.edu...
> XF86 4.0, due out "real soon now", will support multiple resolutions
within a
> sigle X session (called overlays), so that you can run an 8-bit IDL inside
a
> higher bit-depth environments, as you have been able to do with Solaris,
SGI
> machines, and commercial X-servers for quite a long time.

I sincerely hope that XFree86 version 4.0 offers some performance
improvements over the current version. I'm running Redhat 6.1 on a 500 Mhz
Pentium III, 512 MB RAM, and a Viper V550 (TNT 32MB), and the X server
performance is just woeful. I can't even grab a window and drag it around
the screen smoothly. I'm pretty sure it's not the hardware because we've
tried it on two separate boxes, each with different CPU and graphics
hardware (but the same version of Redhat and XFree86), and seen the same
results. This is particularly annoying in IDL, because animation is just
about impossible. As a result, we're testing AcceleratedX.

Cheers,
Liam.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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		Re: linux XF86 X visuals, IDL 16-bit blues By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 01 February 2000 00:00
		Re: linux XF86 X visuals, IDL 16-bit blues By: Bernard Puc on Mon, 31 January 2000 00:00
		Re: linux XF86 X visuals, IDL 16-bit blues By: Liam E. Gumley on Fri, 28 January 2000 00:00
		Re: linux XF86 X visuals, IDL 16-bit blues By: John-David T. Smith on Fri, 28 January 2000 00:00
		Re: linux XF86 X visuals, IDL 16-bit blues By: George McCabe on Thu, 27 January 2000 00:00
		Re: linux XF86 X visuals, IDL 16-bit blues By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 27 January 2000 00:00

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