Re: [TCLUG:11032] Setting up X-Windows

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:11032] Setting up X-Windows
From: Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 05:38:54 -0600
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> > Why? Seems to me you'd want to leave as much bus time available to the
> > 3D engine as possible...
> 
> Um. refresh does not flood the bus.  I dont know where you are getting
> this assumption from.
> 
> Refresh is driven by a few chips that throw a signal over the analog vga
> connector.

But it still needs to read the frame buffer every refresh... I'm talking
about the video card's internal RAM bus.

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