On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] jordan muscott wrote:
> Greets all,
>
> PIII 866
> Slackware 9
> Xfree 4.3
>
> Sorry if I am asking an obvious question.
>
> I am thinking of buying a GeForce 2 MX400, and
> after reading this:
> http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/Status23.html#23
>
> I get the impression that with xfree-4.3 I would
> not have to rely on the binary drivers from
> NVidia in order to get hardware acceleration. Am
> i correct? If so, are there any performance
> comparisons available?
>
This card is supported in XFree86 4.3 (and 4.2 as well).
Shortcomings of the "nv" driver included in XFree86 are that
the dualhead feature does not work and only one head can be
used at a time (unlike the binary drivers). Also, there is
no hardware accelerated 3D in the "nv" driver. The
NVIDIA binary drivers have considerably better benchmark
performance for 2D, though real life performance is harder
to determine - it depends on what you are doing. Overall
the "nv" driver should do fairly well with regards to 2D
performance. I maintain the "nv" driver and can address
specific questions if you have them.
Mark.
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