From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Planning on a new system
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:30:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521073033.GA20335@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1021856882.1814.12.camel@tiger> <20020520192136.GC25125@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20020520154244.2bfb882e.arodland@noln.com>
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:42:44PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2002 21:21:36 +0200
> Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:07:58PM -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > > Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
> >
> > AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble
> > time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them.
> > I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can
> > do without it.
>
> You get 2d, semi-accelerated (that is, XAA only) graphics, at whatever
> resolution you want, with X's "nv" driver.
What's full-accelerated 2d then?
> Installing the NVidia kernel stuff + other libraries gets you better
> acceleration on X, Render, Xv, and of course hardware-accelerated GLX.
The "nv" driver in X (since 4.1.0) has Xv also, for apparently all
Geforce 2 and 3 chips. In my experience it's fine for running my desktop
at 1600x1200x32 and also for watching videos using Xv support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-21 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-20 1:07 Planning on a new system Louis Garcia
2002-05-20 16:37 ` Diego Calleja
2002-05-20 19:21 ` Jan Hudec
2002-05-20 19:42 ` Andrew Rodland
2002-05-21 7:30 ` Anssi Saari [this message]
2002-05-20 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-20 19:41 ` J Sloan
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