Re: Planning on a new system

Andrew Rodland (arodland@noln.com)
Mon, 20 May 2002 15:42:44 -0400


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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.

Installing the NVidia kernel stuff + other libraries gets you better
acceleration on X, Render, Xv, and of course hardware-accelerated GLX.

It's actually not a bad card, lots of speed and decent quality... but
the module is occasionally flaky, and, of course, undebuggable. :)

--hobbs

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