[ILUG] xfree86 4 is out

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:24:51AM +0000, Con Hennessy mentioned:
> Hi,
> Anyone notice that Netscape scroling is alot slower with 3.9.18 than 3.3.5 ?
> Are have any clues as to how to speed that up ?

 For me, it's quite a bit faster.

 Check do you have mtrr enabled in the kernel. Then, make use of it.

 Next, run xdpyinfo |grep option

 If it states;
      options:    backing-store NO, save-unders NO

 Then, edit whatever starts off X, and give it a +bs option to turn back
on backing stores.

Kate

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