On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:22:40AM -0400, Davin Desborough wrote: > OK, I am hopelessly confused (in other words, a noob) on this issue. I > get the point that framebuffer lets you run without X, but is that a > tremendous improvement? I am currently running Freevo under X with my > GeForce4 using the NVidia driver and I have no complaints about > performance.
If it isn't broken, why go through the trouble? In all seriousness; the advantage of the framebuffer is lower overhead, quicker startup and this should translate into performance. I originally was working on a very low end machine so the framebuffer made a big difference, but I imagine it matters less on machines which are mostly idle. > I guess I am looking for compelling reasons to attempt to get > framebuffer up and running. If someone can tell me that there is a > marked improvement when running under framebuffer, I'll give it a go. For the Matrox G400 cards, it's trivial to get it up and running; for Nvidia, it might be harder, and I'm not sure if you'll get the same level of hardware acceleration, so there might not be any tangible benefit. > > > Lastly, thanks to all the developers of Freevo for an excellent piece > of software! > > > > Thanks for any feedback, > > Davin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
