Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? [u] | From | "Martin Schlemmer [c]" <> | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:26:25 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 10:24 +0200, Tonnerre wrote: > Salut, > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:19:07AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote: > > > (3) How do you feel about the choice of neglecting 3D performance as a > > > priority? How important is 3D performance? In what cases is it not? > > > > Yeah, I think it is important - just for decent performance in > > gnome/kde, you need a card with accel RENDER support, as well as XV/GL > > for video. Not to talk about those of us that are heavy gamers, or like > > me who like my ut2004/quake3/nvn once or twice a week. > > OpenGL should be enough to get RENDER working. The rest may be based > on. > > > The reality of the issue is just while I love my linux, I rather > > taint my kernel than crappy X performance or no gaming now and then. > > The NVidia driver hangs my system after around 10 minutes, and if I > write additional media drivers and other things, I sometimes end up with > > if (ptr) > ptr->blah(ptr); > > failing with ptr being dereferenced as a NULL pointer, which shouldn't > happen as I just checked it. > > To people developing the kernels, NVidia and other closed source > drivers are desasterous, as you can't seem to find out what the hell > they're doing, apart from graphics. >
I did not say I like it, but its better than nothing. My system here at home had an uptime of near 20 days before I rebooted for 2.6.9-mm1 with nvidia driver (intel i875), but at work (nforce1) it freezes if I scroll in gnumeric with same driver. I guess it depends what setup.
-- Martin Schlemmer
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