Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 May 2002 10:30:33 +0300 | From | Anssi Saari <> | Subject | Re: Planning on a new system |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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