[Mplayer-users] Re: video card(s)?

[Felix Buenemann]

Hello Anssi,

Friday, July 27, 2001, 6:14:24 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:24:13PM +0200, Mark Gjøl wrote:
>> Anyway. As far as I'm concerned the drivers for nvidia-based gfx-cards 
>> are adequate.

> I'll have to agree. I do get an occasional crash with nvidia, but that's
> about once in two or three weeks and about half of them are just the X server
> dying, the other half is a complete hang of video. I can usually still
> log in from the net, but that doesn't help much if video can't be reset...
> If the Nvidia image quality weren't shit in 1600x1200, I'd be happy with
> it. Elsa Gladiac MX is the card in question, Geforce 2 MX with 32MB.
hmm, are you sure bad image quality in high res is due to Nvidia card?
Maybe you should use a BNC cable to connect to your monitor, it has
much better quality then standard vga cable. (But I think G400 still
has better 2D Quality then NVidia cards)

> I dug out my old ATI xpert at work card (3D Rage Pro, 8MB memory, PCI) to see
> what ATI support is like. Slow and buggy for this card, at least. 32-bit
> color mode draws all kind of junk all over the screen when moving or
> resizing a window.  Even hardware cursor is not supported in XFree86
> 4.0.3, and the card is from 1996 or so! Apparently that support has
> finally been added in 4.1.0, I'll try that later.

-- 
Best regards,
 Felix                            mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net



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