From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:51:27 +0200 From: Kenneth Johansson Subject: Re: Xvideo acceleration: GATOS for PPC? To: mlan@cpu.lu Cc: DebianPPC , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Message-id: <3B8CD73F.6F2693C9@inn.ericsson.se> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 References: <200108282111.XAA00990@piglet.grunz.lu> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Michel Lanners wrote: > > Hi all, > > During my quest for improved performance in such goodies as xine and > vlc, I came across the fact that currently on PPC, the X server eats > between 20 and 40 percent of the cpu cycles, whereas on i386 (with GATOS > drivers), it just sleeps doing nothing.... I have seen something like this on plain x86. Turns out it was the gnome "desk guide" that tries to update the thumb nail display with the screen contents and most of the processing ends up in X for some reason. -- Kenneth Johansson Ericsson Business Innovation AB Tel: +46 8 404 71 83 Viderögatan 3 Fax: +46 8 404 72 72 164 80 Stockholm kenneth.johansson@inn.ericsson.se ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/