EPIA-M HW graphics slow under linuxbios

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Thu Jan 29 05:10:01 CET 2004


* Dmitry Borisov <jbors at mail.ru> [040129 05:07]:
> Hi, I have taken freebios from CVS and applied the patch from here
> http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2003-July/004046.html
> to enable VGA. It works perfect. Exactly what I need.  The major
> problem with such a build is that directfb( it uses HW accelaration
> extensively ) works 2 times slower. Even though it still uses it as
> without acceleration it runs 10 times slower...  I'm wondering what
> could cause such a slow performance ? Does anyone have any suggestions
> ?  ( It seems all other pure memory/disk programs are not affected )
> Dmitry/

Just guessing ...
Maybe an MTRR entry is missing? Does the epia connect it's graphics with
an (AGP) bridge? Maybe the bridge is not at full speed?

  Stefan
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     Stefan Reinauer, SUSE LINUX AG
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