Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Thu, August 27, 2009 18:27, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Sebastian
> Beßler<sebastian@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
>
>> Paul Hartman schrieb:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:16 AM, BRM<bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not everyone upgrades their video card every 6 months.
>>>> Most probably get a video card upgrade only when they buy a new
>>>> computer; and most don't buy a new computer every other year either,
>>>> probably more like 4 years or so.
>>>
>>> You can get a GeForce 9600 for around USD$50, which comes near the
>>> performance of the famously-expensive 8800 series (or at least near
>>> enough for costing hundreds of dollars less), and has an H.264
>>> decoder so you can use vdpau with mplayer or mythtv to allow even very
>>> slow computers to play high-res video smoothly.
>>
>> Many mainboards from that time only have AGP not PCI-E and to get a
>> 9600
>> with AGP is not easy or even possible, so that is not really a option.
>
> I have an old Pentium 4 box which has a PCI-E video card. If a
> computer is so old it doesn't even have PCI-E, its owner probably wouldn't
> expect 3D desktop effects to work so well in the first place.

Just for the record, things like compiz work preferctly in an nvidia
6200, agp. They will work without a problem in an hd2600 which is a much
better card, agp as well. The cpu is a sempron 3000+, which works at a
clock rate of 1800 I think. You haven't researched much. AGP is not equal
to Geforce 2 mx or 3dfx, you know...

Being that said, I have zero interest in desktop effect. I don't even have
compositing enabled, It's useless stuff for me. So I really don't care
about this stuff. Just pointing out the error.

-- 
Jesús Guerrero