On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:44:28 +0200, Ira Abramov wrote > hello ppl! > > in my machine I have an excellent MGA G400, it's great at text, seems > like full-screen video at high resolutions under XF86 4.2 is a little > choppy though, and lots of frames are dropped. possibilities are:
Umm, with what player did you test it? mplayer plays it very nice (even DVD's at the same machine) with 3% frame drops, if I remember back from my old machine (I gave this card and bought NVidia). G400 ss the most supported card in XFree with their open source drivers. Matrox closed source drivers are also working pretty nice, specially when it comes to TV out and Dual head. > 1. my CPUs are two slow (P2/350) (but non-fullscreen is fine), How much RAM? which Window Manager? > 2. I'm not aware of some optimization options I could switch on. mtrr enabled? (/proc/mtrr) dma? (hdparm) - you'll need both for good playback. > 3. MGA just isn't good at this stuff, time to shell out $70 for a > GeForce4 (I heard nVidia write the linux driver themselves), and > gain a TV-out in the deal. Geforce 4 on Pentium 350?? If I were you I would have buy those cheapo's Elite Group board with Duron soldered in (it costs about 500NIS) - check it at: http://www.plonter.co.il/webcatalog/computerstore/Products_Results.tmpl?command=search&db=^catalog.txt&show=0&BWdescriptionDATArq=PCchips&EQcategoryDATArq=%E7%EC%F7%E9%A0%EE%E7%F9%E1&eqdivisiondatarq=%EC%E5%E7%E5%FA%A0%E0%ED&eqshelfdatarq=BOARD%20WITH%20CPU%20BUNDLE&cart=1037318747320&DESCRIPTIONsort=1&TITLEsort=2 Add to that Geforce 3 (you really don't Geforce 4 - it costs too much now, unless you need some hefty 3D) and it will be cheaper then Geforce 4. Regarding the driver - yes, they write it themselves (it's 95% same driver as their Windows drivers), but if you're the type of only using card with open source drivers, then thats something else... Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
