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[s-x86] Re: Xsun G400 speed



Yes, the Sun's drivers always got behind the Xi's ones, but it's a
shame that my old Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 showed me better visual
results than my brand new G400 - Supermicro P6DLS dual PII 300, 256MB
RAM, UW SCSI disks - close to yours isn't it? :-). Everything is worse,
>from fast typing to window redrawing. Well, I can buy Xi's drivers, but
I don't think Sun is doing a great favor to us just supporting this
card - by the way are we doing a great favor to Sun in using their
product or Sun is favouring the Xi's company to get more profits on
their licensed code?

Regards,
Rafael S J de Souza
desouza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


bob palowoda <palowod-@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/solarisonintel/?start=121
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> 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
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> 


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