On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have an Asus EN7300GT silent that uses the nVidia chipset.
>
> Where possible, I try to go with free drivers. I had noticed a
> picture-quality improvment when watching DVDs if I use the
> debian-packaged nVidia driver. I no
Hello all,
I have an Asus EN7300GT silent that uses the nVidia chipset.
Where possible, I try to go with free drivers. I had noticed a
picture-quality improvment when watching DVDs if I use the
debian-packaged nVidia driver. I notice a huge performance improvement
using kpdf in that the rende
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:05:16 -0700 (PDT):
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Tim Connors wrote:
> > Well, I could until I upgraded something, and now ffmpeg gives
> > segfaults as soon as it starts recording.
> >
> > What repository do people use to get things like mplaye
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Tim Connors wrote:
> I can even record from my TV card real time on my K6-II 500.
cool ..:-0
> Well, I could until I upgraded something, and now ffmpeg gives
> segfaults as soon as it starts recording.
>
> What repository do people use to get things like mplayer and ffmpe
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 30 Oct 2004 04:45:32 -0700 (PDT):
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Jon Dowland wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't even attempt to watch a video on my K6-2 :)
>
> i have no problem watching/listening to *.mpg with mplayer/xine on my
> k6-350 w/ 256MB of memory and 40+ xter
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Right. So I installed libglut, but with the nv driver I still get:
what is the output of "find /lib /usr -name libglut\* -ls"
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
and i
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Jon Dowland wrote:
> I wouldn't even attempt to watch a video on my K6-2 :)
i have no problem watching/listening to *.mpg with mplayer/xine on my
k6-350 w/ 256MB of memory and 40+ xterms up and running at the same time
( and the sound is in sync with the video )
but i would
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:22:46 +0200, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think the CPU is your problem. Do you have a TNT-2 or older
> Nvidia chip?
No, a Geforce2 MX
> The XVideo support for them is not complete, which means
> taht watching videos becomes _very_ CPU intensive.
It
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> Right. So I installed libglut, but with the nv driver I still get:
what is the output of "find /lib /usr -name libglut\* -ls"
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
and if you c
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
# watch out for libglut*.a vs libglut.so.* too
I got this:
733249 496 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500480 Sep 28 07:09
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3
733038 656 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666440 Sep 28 07:09
/usr
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I use a patch to the kernel to have it separate keyboards by vt's and
gdm to start 2 servers and in the start up:
huh ??? kernel patches is not needed for dual display or dual keyboards
but guess there's reasons for it ... though i'm c
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > # watch out for libglut*.a vs libglut.so.* too
> >
>
> I got this:
>
> 733249 496 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500480 Sep 28 07:09
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3
> 733038 656 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666440 Sep 28 07:09
>
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
those seem to be non-critical warnings, we
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> I use a patch to the kernel to have it separate keyboards by vt's and
> gdm to start 2 servers and in the start up:
huh ??? kernel patches is not needed for dual display or dual keyboards
but guess there's reasons for it ... though i'm confused why
Alvin Oga wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
2. I run two X servers for 2 displays, one on AGP TNT2 and one on PCI
MX-440. If I restart the second server, the character sizes change, from
"normal" to tiny. I can get them back to normal by restarting gdm.
how do you "restart the
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >>2. I run two X servers for 2 displays, one on AGP TNT2 and one on PCI
> >>MX-440. If I restart the second server, the character sizes change, from
> >>"normal" to tiny. I can get them back to normal by restarting gdm.
how do you "restart the 2nd
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Russ Pitman wrote:
> The only way I found to remove the drivers was to reinstall the system !!
> That was with 2.4.xx kernels, perhaps the 2.6.8 kernel has improved ??
if you download the latest nvidia drviers from them,
nvidia driver issue is NOT a kernel problem
their i
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >>Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module
> >>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
> >>Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module
> >>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
> >
> >
> > those seem to be non-critica
Paul Johnson wrote:
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Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
For me, it's simple. If you're not doing design work, or gaming,
that require 3D, stay with the free option.
For me, it's not quite so simple. I want to game, but I'm cursed with
nVidia's semi-b
Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
The only errors I see:
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
those seem
Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
The difference I noticed is in the XF86Config-4.conf:
1. I had to use modes to use 1280x1024, with Nvidia I don't.
modes are predefined in the X driver
you might need to fiddle/define the modelines if you want 1400x1024 etc
but
Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 21:17 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote:
< snip>
Seeing as nvidia drivers are being 'installed' here may I ask if anyone has
had problems running frozen-bubbles under these drivers.? Every time I
tried the system gave
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 21:17 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > Provided you have kernel-image-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH installed
> >
> > As root do the following:
> >
> > apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 nvidia-kernel-source
> > cd /usr/src
> >
> Provided you have kernel-image-2.6.8-1-$YOUR_ARCH installed
>
> As root do the following:
>
> apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 nvidia-kernel-source
> cd /usr/src
> tar zxf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
> tar jxf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2
> cd kernel-so
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Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For me, it's simple. If you're not doing design work, or gaming,
> that require 3D, stay with the free option.
For me, it's not quite so simple. I want to game, but I'm cursed with
nVidia's semi-buggy drivers an
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > after several hours of chasing things down .. you need to make sure
> > your libraries are from the nvidia-*6111 pkg
> >
> > the fixes and libs to check for
> > #
> > # ndividia's installer does NOT replace/remove all of the old
> > # glu
Paul Johnson wrote:
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Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Debian!
>
> Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86
> driver (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use
> 6111)?
>
> I have used both and see li
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:06 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > Hi Debian!
> > >
> > > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
> > > (Sarge version) and the Nvidi
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Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Debian!
>
> Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
> (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
>
> I have used both and see little difference, exce
hi ya
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> The difference I noticed is in the XF86Config-4.conf:
> 1. I had to use modes to use 1280x1024, with Nvidia I don't.
modes are predefined in the X driver
you might need to fiddle/define the modelines if you want 1400x1024 etc
but lower res s
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi Debian!
> >
> > Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
> > (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
nvidia is the better driver
Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include
* Jon Dowland [Thu, Oct 28 2004, 12:33:47PM]:
In case you don't need to run 3d programs, using nv will be fine for you
...provided you have a reasonably modern computer or a small
resolution display. On my AMD K6-2 450mhz, the nv driver is unbearably
slow at 1280x1024
#include
* Jon Dowland [Thu, Oct 28 2004, 12:33:47PM]:
> > In case you don't need to run 3d programs, using nv will be fine for you
>
> ...provided you have a reasonably modern computer or a small
> resolution display. On my AMD K6-2 450mhz, the nv driver is unbearably
> slow at 1280x1024.
I do
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi Debian!
Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
(Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former
I cannot get glx to work.
Thanks.
Hugo
The differenc
Jon Dowland wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:23:08 +0200, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In case you don't need to run 3d programs, using nv will be fine for you
...provided you have a reasonably modern computer or a small
resolution display. On my AMD K6-2 450mhz, the nv driver is unbearab
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:23:08 +0200, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In case you don't need to run 3d programs, using nv will be fine for you
...provided you have a reasonably modern computer or a small
resolution display. On my AMD K6-2 450mhz, the nv driver is unbearably
slow at 1280x1
At Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:37:32 -0500,
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> Hi Debian!
>
> Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
> (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
>
> I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former
>
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi Debian!
>
> Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
> (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
>
> I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former
> I ca
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi Debian!
Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
(Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former
I cannot get glx to work.
Thanks.
Hugo
It's exactly
Hi Debian!
Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver
(Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)?
I have used both and see little difference, except that with the former
I cannot get glx to work.
Thanks.
Hugo
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