Quoting Hetz Ben-Hamo, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: > Weird. G400 got a great hardware scaler so it doesn't really change > much which resolution you use since it does scaling on hardware, not > software. You can check if you have Xv supported (with: xvinfo) - if > you get "no adapters found" - then there's your problem.
xvinfo shows it fine (this is Debian unstable we are talking here, latest everything). as for scaling on the hardware - I have no idea what you are talking about. it's sending a 640x480 image to the screen not doing interpolation (and my OSD of the 21" CTX confirms it) > Also, mplayer is the fastest playback program. If you're using debian - then > make sure you have the latest 0.90pre8 (or pre9) installed. The mplayer docs > also mention some stuff regarding G400. [root@joy /warez/iso/trilvid]# apt-cache search mplayer mga-vid-source - Kernel driver for the backend scaler on Matrox cards (source) I'll go compile mplayer. as for the above package, sounds like something I want... thanks for the idea! > Please run: xine-check and look at the results ;) seems OK. no complaints. > > I avoid it by leaving the window size and hitting ctrl-alt-+ a few > > times till it fits the screen, but it's a lame solution. > > It won't change anything since it's done on hardware, so > increasing/decreasing resolution won't change much. ok, please explain what it's doing different than other cards... > > yeah, a dual P2/350 with half a meg of L2 cache on each CPU and onboard > > ultraSCSI. > > Ahh! I thought you have a single Pentium 350 processor. allow me to quote: > 1. my CPUs are two slow (P2/350) (but non-fullscreen is fine), I admit I had a freudian typo, but it actually punctuates the fact I have TWO cpus :) mind, even with one CPU, the faster FSB and larger cache may make this CPU perform better than a 500 Mhz Duron. > Depends for what purpose. for 550 NIS you get a nice processor, and > everything onboard including graphics, sound, ethernet, etc - which is > not a bad solution for a small purpose file server or a low end > workstation. not gonna argue, let's stick to the topic (but anyway, you're wrong :) > For Nvidia? you'll need to "compile" their own kernel module (each > time you change the kernel version, so keep the tarball somewhere) and > you'll also need their GLX driver to install. You'll also need to > change your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file from "nv" to "nvidia", and > remove the "dri" module from this configuration file. The driver > itself got lots of cool features, so you might want to take a look at > the docs (it's Xinerama for dual screens is really good), as well as > some nice stuff like "nvtv" and some tweaking programs.. cool, then it may be worth the headache either way... -- Man of tommorow Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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