On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:43:08PM +0100, segv wrote:
> I have another question: I notice considerable flicker on the screen
> when scrolling in xterm or a gtk application.

Does not happen for me.

> Is that because the
> driver is unaccelerated? There is no flicker when running on Solaris.

The driver is accelerated, unless you forbid it with "options NoAccel YES".
Check your /var/log/XFree86.0.log - it should have something like this:

(II) /dev/fb0: Using acceleration
(II) /dev/fb0: DGA support initialized.

Martin