Date: 28 Jan 2003 12:27:48 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel Message-ID: <1043719067.85849.27.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1043718054.96617.18.camel@localhost> References: <20030127204647.GA373@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <00b501c2c647$eeb5ba60$0e0c32d4@niked> <20030127230130.GA3246@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <1043714433.96161.14.camel@localhost> <1043715322.85849.6.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <1043716452.96617.3.camel@localhost> <1043717032.85849.10.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <1043718054.96617.18.camel@localhost>
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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:10, James Pole wrote: > > I might run one if I can be bothered tonight. > > If you can run one, the results would be intresting. BTW, what > benchmarks are there for benchmarking 2D performances? xengine? There's xbench but I can't see the port for it.. ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/xbench-0.2-src.tar.gz > > Another advantage of the nvidia driver is that it provides Xv support > > for non GeForce chipsets. > > Mplayer's X11 output is fast enough for most people. On my 1700+ it > rarely uses more than 10% of the CPU. Anyway Mplayer (and most of the > other video players) do all many of its maths operations using the > MMX/SSE/3DNow! exenstions and lots of processors supports at least one > of these x86 exenstions. Try full screen. Xv can do colour space and size changes via the video card. Personally I prefer not to waste my CPU doing things I have hardware acceleration for :) That and I have a K7 1Ghz which doesn't do full screen very well without Xv. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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