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A couple of booby-traps for the unwarey... |
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1) There seemes to be a colour translation bug in recent versions of |
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Flash that only shows with the Nvidia video drivers. Red and blue are |
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swapped in Flash. If you see people with blue faces, and you're not |
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watching Avatar, you've hit this bug. The solution is to edit |
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/etc/adobe/mms.cfg Append the line... |
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EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 |
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This will work with most Nvidia cards. If that doesn't work, try making |
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it two lines, namely... |
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EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 |
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OverrideGPUValidation=true |
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Note that Flash is quite fragile with these two lines, and the plugin |
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crashes a lot. |
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2) Nvidia drivers do not like the mplayer "xv" video output option at |
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all. It hangs my machine, requiring Magic-Sysrq to shut down |
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semi-gracefully. Don't use that option with Nvidia drivers. |
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So my Dell Inspiron D530 desktop, which is pushing 5 years, paired |
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with a $40 Asus EN210 SILENT/DI/512MD3/V2(LP) NVIDIA GeForce 210 Chipset |
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(589Mhz) 512MB (1333Mhz) GDDR3 DVI/VGA/HDMI PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics |
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Card gets over 5300 fps in glxgears. In real life, it plays 1080p |
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Youtube HD videos fullscreen (1920x1080) without stuttering. I do have |
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to let it buffer for several seconds first, because my 6 megabit ADSL |
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connection nets 4.98 megabits, and it can't quite keep up with the |
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required download speed. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |