I have a few YDL questions - perhaps this should have been sent to the new users list; if this list is inappropriate, my apologies.
I am attempting to install YDL 4.1 on an external Firewire drive attached to a 1.5 GHz Powerbook 17" laptop. It seemed to install successfully and launched into the KDE display manager. I noticed first that the graphics were painfully slow - when running the web browser (Firefox, I believe) there were many video artifacts when one moved the browser window indicating very very slow refresh. First question is how do I ensure that I have accelerated video? Next, when playing with the display configuration, I managed to set an excessive refresh rate so I now get gibberish on the screen. Is there a simple way to reset the graphics? (through xconfig or something like this using a terminal?). Finally, can one recommend a development system for making multiwindow apps using OpenGL? I have been doing this for a number of years using Project Builder and now Xcode in OSX and have had reasonable success. For a number of uninteresting reasons, I am in the process of abandoning the Apple platform due to the switch to Intel, an architecture I have no interest in. (Also, in my opinion, Xcode is getting worse with each new version and the vaunted Cocoa developing environment is getting less and less attractive). My ultimate goal is playing with the Cell on a PS3 (I have many scientific programs which should benefit from the extreme parallelism - I already get a 4x increase in speed using altivec in an optical raytracer and anticipate more from the Cell). Thanks in advance for any help. Warren Nagourney _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
