Ed Sweetman (ed.sweetman@xxxxxxxxx): > My config settings for my matrox g450 are aggressive with agp enabled Does the open source driver use DMA at all? If it doesn't, do the higher AGP modes even help at all? > and backing store enabled, Is this good or bad? > i'm being held back by this G450 despite all the support for using the > backend scaler and triple buffering for video playback that i use > often. Don't trust this. The video stuff is often quite hacky and it's not very good, even for this 'well supported' card. Specs are widely available yet all of these drivers could still use a ton of work, and now the cards are getting quite obsolete. > And are there any other 2d Xfree86 benchmarks out there that benchmark > the functions and extensions actually used in X these days like render > and shape and pixmap manipulation and all that stuff? I am not sure of one in particular but the ones we like to use for supporting our app are mostly just 'x11perf -shmput500' which is usually a good indication of what any sort of 2D app would need (at least it's a good estimate for video or 2D game performance). -Billy _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
