[s-x86] Re: Xsun G400 speed

[Bob Palowoda <palowoda@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Scott Micciche wrote:

> Well I broke down after my ATI Rage Pro connector broke and bought a
> Matrox G400 16 card.  After seeing that the Xsun server is supporting
> this card and I can't find any G200s around, I took a gamble.  Well
> after installing the proper patch, I was disappointed with the
> performance.  I guess Sun just added "support" and no optimizations. 
> My old ATI put it to shame, especially drawing paging using Netscape. 
> I purchased an Xig license and grabbed the latest update that including
> "support" for the G400 and I was thoroughly impressed.  Their code is
> fast, no color flashing, no high cpu utilization, no latency on drawing
> anything.  I was wondering if anyone else had this disappointment.  My
> machine is an ASUS P2B-D dual PII 400, 384 megs ram, uw scsi disk
> subsystem.
> 
> 

Umm the drivers from Xi seem to be faster than Xfree and Sun's on
both Solaris x86 and Linux so what is the disappointment?  Sun has
never published one single measurement of performance on the 
Intel platform so I guess if you would like to argue numbers one
first has to measure and quantify what you would like compare.

---Bob

Bob Palowoda           | Solaris x86 Corner http://fishbutt.fiver.net
palowoda@xxxxxxxxx     | Do you still remember, December's foggy freeze.
bob.palowoda@xxxxxxx   | 


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shop for your Valentine at eGroups!
http://click.egroups.com/1/1157/3/_/3702/_/949697902/

-- Check out your group's private Chat room
-- http://www.egroups.com/ChatPage?listName=solarisonintel&m=1