On 01/23/2011 03:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> I'll have to get my hands on an Nvidia device next weekend and see how >> much difficulty I have with it myself. > I just got a new one for $30 (GeForce 8400 GS) from Newegg. The old one > (8300) had a fan and it was getting noisy. Still worked fine though. > The new one has a heat sink, but no fan. > > In any case, for what I was doing on that machine, the VESA driver was > fine (Ubuntu 9.04). > > On my current machine I have a GeForce 9800 GTX and do use the > proprietary driver. > > glxgears: 48784 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9756.800 FPS > Went with the first option as far as the demos we use. It is a 65k patch, but easier than adding another package that we'll use very little of. As far as video cards, I prefer to stay away from the proprietary drivers as much as possible...well that's for anything proprietary really. I'm not a gamer or graphics guy, so the integrated ATI is fine for me. Like you the VESA driver would probably work fine for my use of it...might even work for Blu-Ray playback. I'm not going to skip the open source ATI drivers to find out, but I understand others will need the additional functionality. Open Source drivers with 128MB memory dedicated to video on the built-in 48xx (I think) results in the following from glxgears at default resolution:
4453 frames in 5.0 seconds = 890.577 FPS Even with those wimpy specs, Bluray playback is fine at 1080p. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
