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On Fri, Jul 27 2012, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Jul 26 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>> Check the nvidia site. It will tell you the exact driver Rev that |
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>>> supports this GPU. |
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>> Thanks. I see that 295.53 supports the NVS 5200M. Am I right in |
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>> believing that this means all drivers >= 295.53 support it. |
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>> This would be good as there are a few such in portage. |
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> It's actually very rare for nVidia to remove support for a card that it has. |
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Thanks. I agree and now that I think about it, I can always get the |
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older nvidia-driver from somewhere. |
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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> I am getting a new laptop. (likely dell 6430). |
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>> The two graphics options are intel HD 4000 and nvidia NVS 5200M. |
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>> Dell is as expected suggesting the 5200M. |
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>> I do not need 3D or fast response. Dell hinted that DVDs might not play |
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>> with the intel HD 4000. This seems weird to me as the 4000 is supposed |
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>> to be a big improvement over the 3000 and I can't believe dell or others |
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>> would have sold laptops that can't play dvds |
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>> Any comments or experiences? |
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> My Duron 750MHz was able to decode DVDs in realtime. After that, all |
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> you're doing is blitting (or using xv) the frames to the screen. I |
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> would be absolutely shocked if the Intel HD 4000 GPU couldn't handle |
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> that basic of a 2D acceleration function. |
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> Now, DVDs use MPEG2. Blu-Ray uses h.264, which is a much harder beast |
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> to decode in realtime. It's possible the HD 4000 GPU can't handle |
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> hardware decode of h.264, but I don't know. I've never looked into it. |
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> (Software decode of 1080p h.264 on my Phenom 9650 worked somewhat, but |
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> highly active scenes would cause frame drops.) |
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Thanks. I am not getting a blu-ray player. |
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I forgot a big point. I have a very high res 30" monitor (2560x1600) |
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and need to insure that the graphics card can drive the monitor at full |
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res (I don't care about dvd's just software development and writing my |
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lectures). I haven't received a definitive answer from dell about that. |
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I am really in a quandary over the graphics card. The nvidia card is a |
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little new and not listed on the nouveau page (I have found nouveau |
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works much better than nvidia-drivers). Also it requires a bigger |
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battery and power adapter. Indeed with the intel 4000, I could get a |
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physically smaller dell 6430s with the same 14" screen (but somewhat |
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lower res). |
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allan |