Hi, I've found a setting that was defaulting to a different setting, bpp. Making it the same, 16, has made my 4.2.0 setup vitually identical to 4.1.0, except I now have 2 _extra_ 256x256 slots :-) I'd still like to know if anything can use the other 4MB of VRAM on my card, or if it is a total waste of space. Thanks, Nick On Friday 31 May 2002 7:27 am, Nicholas Baxter-Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Just wanted to share my experiences of upgrading to 4.2.0. > > I installed SuSe Linux 7.2 (X 4.0.3) and upgraded it to 4.1.0 a few months > ago. This was fairly traumatic as I was new to Linux and (I think) I > compiled from source. Nevertheless, it resulted in a stable platform that > (with KDE 3.0) is fast and responsive. I was particularly impressed that > my monitor can now display 1024×768 (after a lot of tweaking), whereas > Windows can only manage 800×600. > > I have now installed Mandrake 8.2 (X 4.2.0) and I can boot into either > distribution, with the same kernel (or their pre-compiled kernels). > > I was a little disappointed to find the screen was noticeably _less_ > responsive with X 4.2.0 -- more tweaking. In the 'readme's I found that > the sis driver had been improved, and XAA had been completely > reimplemented; and the logs showed another difference. > > (II) SIS(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) > Screen to screen bit blits > Solid filled rectangles > --- 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles > --- Solid Lines > +++ Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines > Setting up tile and stipple cache: > --- 32 128x128 slots > +++ 16 128x128 slots > --- 10 256x256 slots > +++ 4 256x256 slots > > I assume this is due to a limitation of memory space, but I don't have any > extra modules (that I'm aware of) taking up VRAM. Are there extra features > implemented that need their own slice of VRAM? Can these be disabled? > Would I get extra slots/rectangles in return? > > If the problem is memory constraints, is there any way to use the other > half of the 8MB on my card, that is lieing idle, or a MB or 2 of system > memory? (it is AGP).
