Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? [u]
From: "Martin Schlemmer [c]" <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Reply-To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
To: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
Cc: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:26:25 +0200
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On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 10:24 +0200, Tonnerre wrote:
> Salut,
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> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:19:07AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:
> > > (3) How do you feel about the choice of neglecting 3D performance as =
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> > > priority?  How important is 3D performance?  In what cases is it not?
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> > Yeah, I think it is important - just for decent performance in
> > gnome/kde, you need a card with accel RENDER support, as well as XV/GL
> > for video.  Not to talk about those of us that are heavy gamers, or lik=
e
> > me who like my ut2004/quake3/nvn once or twice a week.
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> OpenGL should be  enough to get RENDER working. The  rest may be based
> on.
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> > The reality  of the issue  is just while  I love my linux,  I rather
> > taint my kernel than crappy X performance or no gaming now and then.
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> The NVidia  driver hangs my system  after around 10 minutes,  and if I
> write additional media drivers and other things, I sometimes end up with
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> if (ptr)
> 	ptr->blah(ptr);
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> failing with ptr being dereferenced as a NULL pointer, which shouldn't
> happen as I just checked it.
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> To  people developing  the  kernels, NVidia  and  other closed  source
> drivers are desasterous,  as you can't seem to find  out what the hell
> they're doing, apart from graphics.
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I did not say I like it, but its better than nothing.  My system here at
home had an uptime of near 20 days before I rebooted for 2.6.9-mm1 with
nvidia driver (intel i875), but at work (nforce1) it freezes if I scroll
in gnumeric with same driver.  I guess it depends what setup.


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Martin Schlemmer


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