Preferred video card

[Hanasaki JiJi]

Anyting ATI if i can get it.

Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Charles K. Lee II wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>>
>>> Dragging windows around also seems a bit faster now, although it 
>>> looks like the redraws are pretty asynchronous to the screen refresh, 
>>> and occurring multiple times per video scan (making the edges ragged 
>>> when moving), but I can live with that.
>>
>>
>> The problem here is that the latest NVIDIA drivers no longer use XAA
>> (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture).  They've replaced it with their 
>> own 2D
>> acceleration component that better facilitates simultaneous 2D and 3D
>> rendering.  However, it's a bit lacking when it comes to 2D 
>> performance, as
>> you have seen.
>>
>> I've heard that adding 'Option "renderAccel" "true"' to the 'Device' 
>> section
>> within your X configuration file may help.  However, most people have 
>> just
>> reverted back to the previous version of the drivers.
>> You can find this issue mentioned in the following forums:
>>
>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=1bec0dd16f377dc311507267bf72ec12&threadid=4997 
>>
>>
>> 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33226&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=nvidia+dri
vers 
>>
> 
> 
> Great information!
> 
> Thanks for the links (digesting the info now).  I'm pretty sure I'm 
> seeing the 2D slowdown, as I'll swear the system was drastically slower 
> in previous tests (before I ran glxgears), but I figured with all the 
> problems and bleary-eyed kernel-compiling I've been doing I had just 
> halucinated the slowness or something.  I'll try the various tweaks 
> mentoned in the forums, as well as the earlier drivers (for comparison) 
> if I can get them to work (I'm not sure if they support the latest 8X 
> AGP version of the Ti4200 on my board).
> 

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