I have a Dell Inspiron 8200. lspci -vv gives: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 Go] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
I have been waiting to try the newest nv driver so I wouldn't have to use the binary only nvidia driver. I installed Branden Robinson's debian 4.2.1 pre release X packages and have X running quite well, with a couple of issues. 1. If I blank the screen (with bios function key mapping-- ie Fn+D) when I return to X, the top half of the screen is on the bottom and vice versa. I can chvt to a tty and come back and it is restored, but it is slightly annoying and the nvidia binary drivers did not have this problem. 2. 16 bit color depth at 1400x1050 (max resolution of the laptop) looks great, but 24 bit has problems with gradients (eg background in nautilus)-- they appear 'barred'. I tried different modelines and options in XF86Config-4 to no avail. Is this a known issue? Finally, this is not a problem, but more a question about the driver. The driver is noticably slower if I don't have ShadowFB enabled. In the Xfree86.0.log, it says: (**) NV(0): Option "ShadowFB" "on" (**) NV(0): Using SW cursor (**) NV(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer" - acceleration disabled (--) NV(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE0000000 (--) NV(0): MMIO registers at 0xFC000000 Note, 'acceleration is disabled.' I am assuming this means 2D acceleration, but having ShadowFB enabled is much better. With it disabled, launching a gnome-terminal is slow with high cpu usage until it pops up (about 2 seconds), and closing windows is also slow (via the 'X' button in sawfish). Should ShadowFB typically be enabled with this driver? The performance is perfectly acceptable with it enabled. Thank you for the great work. Other than these small issues, I am very pleased with the nv driver. Jamie Strandboge -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
