On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
"Dave" == Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net> writes:
Apart from corruption on the XDM login window (which occurs with and without acceleration), I have had no bugs or negative issues yet. I haven't tested it much -- windows can be slid with the mouse very rapidly without leaving long trails; DOSBox plays my favorite old game without sound glitches (graphics seem quicker, but haven't played with settings yet); prboom doesn't bog down so much -- but I'm already liking it. The visual aspects of my desktop machine haven't been this responsive since the proprietary NVidia driver went away (with the dead card this past summer).
Dave> I need to make a slight correction here. Before my GeForce Dave> 7950GT died, I was running the 'nvidia' proprietary driver. Two Dave> of the applications I mentioned above, 'prboom' and 'dosbox', Dave> could be configured to use OpenGL -- and with 'nvidia' that Dave> produced the most satisfying visual results and peformance.
Dave> When the GeForce died, I replaced it with a Radeon X1650Pro I Dave> had lying around. After about a month, replaced that with my Dave> current card, a Radeon HD 4850.
I think I've got the same card in my system now, though PCIe based. Could you share your notes and build scripts with the rest of us so we can build and test .debs more easily? I'm running Ubuntu 9.10, but happy to break my system to get better performance. Oh wait, I've got an X1250, R500 card. In any case, your notes (either emailed or put into the wiki) would be a great help!
Also, when I lock my display, and kid seven year old switches users so he can play Super Mario Chronicles, the performance is terrible. Is this because user switching doesn't allow sharing of the Hardware for video acceleration? I seem to remember something about this, but Ican't find it in my old emails currently.
DRI1 only supports one accelerated instance. KMS/DRI2 supports multiple accelerated sessions. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org