On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:07:47PM +0000, jasmine@electronpusher.org wrote:
OMAPs pre-OMAP2420 suck at X font rendering, universally, though I agree that on small screens they're not quite as bad. As for the E3, the very slow screen makes mouse pointers really, really unpleasant to use.
Right, the quality of the screen is a serious problem. Nokia have managed to run X respectably on the 770, which is based on the 1710 - admittedly it's got twice as much RAM and a few more MHz than the E3, but still.
Also, X uses far too much RAM, and X applications tend to use too much floating point maths (ie., any at all) for the 925 to perform adequately. On top of that, there's the appalling memcpy() performance of ARM9 cores to consider.
I've happily run X on ARM9 devices with 32MB of RAM in the past, but it's certainly not something that I'd expect a generic distribution to be good at.