-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Quoting Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | |>020909 Adam Williamson wrote: |> |>as the subscriber who first raised this, i can only agree with 1st-time AW. |>there are degrees of expertise, very wide ones: |>i've been using Mandrake for 2 years ( 6.1 , 8.0 briefly, 8.2 , 9.0rc1 ), |>but i have no idea what the strengths or weaknesses of 3.3.6 & 4.2.0 are. | | | The best thing (IMHO) is to install 4.2.x, download the NVidia accelerated | drivers, and install them. Mega performance improvement. | | The edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file and add a -dpi 75 to the server config | line(s) |
I'm running an Inno3d Tornado Geforce2 Pro 64 (64MB) and a Diamond V550 (Riva TNT 16MB) under the XFree86-4.2.0 that ships with Mandrake 8.2 both with the NVIDIA supplied drivers (latest). I can say that the 2D drivers in the nvidia module are a lot, lot better than those in the binary drivers in regards to startup. The binary drivers take anywhere from 2 to 5 attempts at starting X on my 1Ghz Athlon Thunderbird w/ 1GB RAM enterprise kernel (tried a bunch of varieties, think this one was 2.4.19-8mdk) and 10 to 20 attemps on a K6-2/400 w/ 256MB RAM standard (2.4.18custom, 2.4.19-5, 2.4.18custom-openmosix). I almost took out the binary drivers on the K6-2 (my server) as anytime X has to be restarted (for example a logout back to gdm), the system spends about 10 seconds worth of X starting and dying before it gets to the splashscreen and then another 10 seconds until X and the window manager actually start. During this time, any network based connections are frozen. I'd bet the whole machine itself it locked in such a manner, but I don't have 2 video cards on the box to give it a shot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2AEZsACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1NvowCgnRILZFkb9WWr0G/1lNmHfNJ0 s4wAnjf0GbwfH1nB7PmWJkg/z4gHrRGq =vsoy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
