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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 16:26 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: |
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>> On topic: What however DO annoy me, speaking of Nvidia, is the delay in |
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>> releaseing the new driver compatible with x.org 7.x. I'm tempted to go with |
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>> the open source module for a while as I really don't use any heavy OpenGL |
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>> applications (no games for me). Can anyone please give me some indication on |
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>> the speed difference in 2d acceleration between the open and the closed |
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>> drivers? |
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> First off, the NVIDIA drivers work on X.Org 7.0, just not on 7.1. |
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> Second, the "nv" driver is abysmal, at best. I've found that the VESA |
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> driver gives better performance, especially when watching video. The |
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> performance advantages of the binary drivers aren't just in OpenGL |
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> performance. |
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> Let me put it to you this way, the performance is *SO BAD* with the "nv" |
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> driver that for 2006.1, we're replacing "nv" with "vesa" in our X |
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> detection system, so we get fewer complaints. |
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On systems with accelerated fbdev, you'll probably get faster results |
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from the fbdev driver than vesa. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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