ReiserFS, WiFI and 3D & DVDs

David Balazic david.balazic at hermes.si
Thu Nov 13 11:45:25 UTC 2003


> ----------
> From: 	Lionel Bouton[SMTP:Lionel.Bouton at inet6.fr]
> Reply To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Sent: 	13. november 2003 11:18
> To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: 	Re: ReiserFS, WiFI and 3D & DVDs
> 
> David Balazic wrote the following on 11/13/2003 10:53 AM :
> 
> >  
> >
> >>----------
> >>From: 	Jack Aboutboul[SMTP:jaboutboul at speakeasy.net]
> >>
> >>On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 17:03, Luis-Miguel Astudillo wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Why is :
> >>>ReiserFS, XFS missing from this distro ?  
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>	Because its not and because you dont know how to read release notes.
> >>Boot the Installer and type linux reiserfs or linux xfs.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>3D is not as supported as in Window$, how come that it is so hard to
> >>>make it work ?  You buy good laptop or PCs but the only work in VESA
> >>>mode.  
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>	Oh Really? I have a laptop with a radeon 7500 and it works
> >>flawlessly.
> >>See this output from glxgears. Thats 3D.
> >>	
> >>	4337 frames in 5.0 seconds = 867.400 FPS
> >>	9643 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1928.600 FPS
> >>	25689 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5137.800 FPS
> >>	30501 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6100.200 FPS
> >>	30426 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6085.200 FPS
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >3D support in fedora goes from nonexistent, over pathetic to
> >acceptable-if-we-close-one-eye.
> >The best support is for ATI radeon, but only older hardware is supported
> (
> >8500/9100/9200 ).
> >And it is lower performance than other propietary drivers.
> >  
> >
> 
> Enemy Territory doesn't seem to be anywhere slow here.
> 
> >And is has display bugs. And stability bugs.
> >
> 
> My experience so far with a 8500LE was that ATI proprietary drivers are 
> unusable for 3D gameplay (as in "computer - not only X - crash in a 
> matter of minutes") and have a very buggy xv implementation. OSS drivers 
> are fine.
> 
I have the same exprience with 8500LE + OSS drivers : computer - not only X
-crash
in a matter of seconds ( after starting a 3D game ).

Besides, when X crashes, usually the computer follows.

> Cheers,
> 
> LB
> 
> 
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