On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:03:03 -0400 "Scott V. McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:37:52PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > ... elision ... > > Excellent! Thanks, Andrea. > > > > I was googling and found some threads indicating I would need to > > disable the vesafb framebuffer, but evidently not, as it's now > > working. Glxgears is now showing 2600fps, and tuxracer is getting > > between 125 & 200 fps(about the most advanced game I expect this > > user to play). > > Might I ask what you think of the image quality of these cards? I've > been considering getting a 9200 or 9200SE (for my Debian system) but > heard some complaints. I've been fully satisfied with both a 9200 and a 9200SE (one's a Diamond board and the other's a Gigabyte). Xine complains a little bit about the frame rate being too low (2 warnings for one 109 minute dvd), but still looks great to me. On the other hand, note that I'm not exercising them that hard; 15" lcd on the SE and 17" lcd on the other, both using 1024x768 and 16 - 32bpp settings. Also, at least the SE does not seem capable of doing flightgear (www.flightgear.org), but I don't play games much at all. The plain 9200 might get exercised with Tuxracer a bit, but that's about it. All that to say, I may not be the best one to speak, depending on what you want to do with it. Using only the open source drivers in Debian Sarge, I typically see ~1850 fps in glxgears on the SE and ~2600 on the 9200. Tuxracer shows up to 115fps on the SE and 200 on the 9200 (running full screen). The computer with the SE is a 1Ghz Athlon and the 9200 is a XP2600+, both using motherboards with Nvidia Nforce2 chipsets. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
