🚀 go-pugleaf

These newsgroups carry lots of postings from people asking what graphics
cards to buy as part of a 486 system.  I too have been seeking The Answer.

It would be a big help if there was a complete, comprehensive set of
benchmark results, obtained from running "xbench" on all the main
graphics cards.  Unless I am mistaken, nobody has yet collected such
a database.

I hereby volunteer to collect and collate these figures.

For this to work, I need all you XFree86 users out there to run xbench
on your systems (if you haven't already) and mail the results back to me.
I will summarize and post the results as they become available.
I have included an example form that should cover all the relevant
statistics, i.e. your hardware, your software and the xbench results.
The xbench *summary* results are probably enough for this exercise.
If you consider any other data to be relevant, feel free to include it too.

XBench is available by ftp from hundreds of archive sites around the world,
e.g.
	sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/X11/X-servers/s3/xbench.tar.gz
	ftp.physics.su.oz.au:/xbench/xbench.tar.gz
	lth.se:/pub/netnews/sources.x/volume3/xbench/...

and many more (check out archie for your nearest site).
It includes instructions about compiling and running the program,
and some example results.  To run the benchmark, read the README file,
edit the script.run file, then type:
	xset s off			(turn off the screen saver)
	xbench -ask < script.run > results/YOURFILE	(go get a coffee)
	awk -f scripts/xstones.awk < results/YOURFILE

Lets see who has the fastest, hottest XFree86 system around.

Farrell.
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Farrell McKay.     Email: fbm@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au      Phone: +61 2 339-3683
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