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From: Danno on 22 Jan 2010 16:16 Danno wrote: <snip> > I don't really do a lot of 3D any more, but, I recently > fired up Unreal Tournament 1999 & UT2003, for instance, and they worked > out of the box on this machine in full 1080p. <snip> Forgot to mention that mplayer uses vdpau as well, to decode h.264 video. IIRC, it was simply a matter of comfiguring mplayer with vdpau=true before compiling. -- Slackware 12.2, 2.6.27.7, Core i7 920, GeForce 8400 GS RLU #272755
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 22 Jan 2010 16:32 On Jan 22, 3:32 pm, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettri...(a)aol.com> wrote: > David Brown schrieb: > > > I have /heard/ that with a modern Nvidia card, the open source drivers > > are still very limited, while the binary drivers are very good. On the > > other hand, for modern ATI cards, both the open source drivers and the > > binary drivers are sort of middle-of-the-road. Thus for open source > > only, ATI is the best choice - when you are willing to use binary > > drivers, Nvidia comes out best. Do you think that is a reasonable > > summary, or have I been reading the wrong web sites? > > The point is: most graphics cards manufacturers don't want to publish > the tricks, built into their cards, by offering open-source drivers. > Thus it doesn't make sense to buy a high-performance card, and use it > with an crippled open-source driver. Only if it's built-into an otherwise useful system, or you anticipate the open source drivers being completed in the near future. Take a look at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ for some details on open source NVidia drivers.
From: Mark Hobley on 22 Jan 2010 21:08 Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1(a)aol.com> wrote: > The point is: most graphics cards manufacturers don't want to publish > the tricks, built into their cards, by offering open-source drivers. This doesn't make any sense. Computers are supposed to be programmable. If we can't program the card, then it's a useless piece of kit IMHO. Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/
From: The Natural Philosopher on 23 Jan 2010 04:58 Mark Hobley wrote: > Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1(a)aol.com> wrote: >> The point is: most graphics cards manufacturers don't want to publish >> the tricks, built into their cards, by offering open-source drivers. > > This doesn't make any sense. Computers are supposed to be programmable. Computers WERE suppose dto be prgrammable. Today, they are PeeCees..consumer not very durables. > If we can't program the card, then it's a useless piece of kit IMHO. > try telling that to anyone who is using a car with computerised fuel injection..;-) > Mark. >
From: Trevor Hemsley on 23 Jan 2010 11:31
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:45:25 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've given specifics on ATI cards > that work well, namely the 9200 series of cards, which are admittedly > somewhat out of date. ( 9200's will be AGP. I used to use those when I had an AGP slot. Now I have an PCiE X300SE which works most of the time but it's almost impossible to use Google Earth with it - if you use the open source drivers then it's either glacially slow to render (~5 minutes to get the initial screen loaded) or, if you can find the right incantation to chant to make it work in direct rendering mode then it randomly locks up X completely after a few minutes use. The ATI drivers were just rubbish last time I tried them though it has been a long time since I last tried (end of 2008) - but when I did then applications would randomly just disappear and terminate when the ATI drivers felt like picking on them! From what I remember of NVidia cards, it's very tricky if not impossible to get the proprietary drivers to work with a Xen kernel. I don't want a card to play games with, the most strenuous thing I do with my video system is try to use Google Earth to see far flung parts of the world where my relatives live. If I could fix my X300SE so that it didn't lock up all the time or draw pixel by visible pixel then I' d be happy. Failing that then I too would love to know of a decent, preferably cheap, PCiE video card that will work nicely in dri mode. -- Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com |