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 particulally 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 dissappointed to find the screen was noticably _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).
