Re: Xinerama infrastructure

Roland Mainz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > (to be fair, on certain cards, in my specific case the matrix g400,
> > xinerama is indeed as slow as molasses, for as yet unknown reasons -
> > although it's nice to know that it's tied only to certain cards, and
> > not the entire universe :)
> 
> I suspect the biggest reason is that by having 2 outputs, you
> double the load on the card's bus, thus slowing down everything

... and I guess the rendering is done sequencial and not in parallel...
;-(

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Bye,
Roland

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