ReiserFS, WiFI and 3D & DVDs
David Balazic
david.balazic at hermes.si
Thu Nov 13 11:45:25 UTC 2003
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> From: Lionel Bouton[SMTP:Lionel.Bouton at inet6.fr]
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> Sent: 13. november 2003 11:18
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> 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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