Re: [TCLUG:14996] NVidia vs. The World

["Kelly Black" <blackk100@hotmail.com>]

Yeah, but how does the text look?

Kelly Black

>From: Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>
>Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>Subject: Re: [TCLUG:14996] NVidia vs. The World
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:09:37 -0600
>
>Yaron wrote:
> >
> > > This article has some interesting timing, as I just got
> > > my G400 yesterday,
> >
> > How is it working?
>
>Pretty good, the 3D speed is not quite as good as I was hoping for, but
>there could be any number of reasons for that (my processor speed being
>one).  However, the 3D is definitely better than my TNT2.  I think 2D
>speed is actually faster than the TNT2 (hard to imagine..  My TNT2
>seemed blazing in 2D when I first put it in).  I had to do a fair bit of
>recompiling to get everything working properly (I had Mesa 3.0
>libraries, when glx needed 3.1 or 3.2, plus some other problems, such as
>xscreensaver being linked to 'libGL.so.3', when Mesa 3.1 and glx will
>produce libraries named libGL.so.1...)
>
>I was, however, disappointed to find out that the TV-out capability of
>this card can't really be used (I think there's some way to flash the
>BIOS to force the second head to always do TV-out, but I'm not sure if I
>want to do that).  I guess MacroVision's copy protection scheme would be
>in danger of being compromised if Matrox released the specs on that part
>(which would be a valid argument if the scheme wasn't well-known
>already..).  Also, as one would expect, DVD support doesn't appear to be
>alive (but I don't have a DVD drive or any DVDs anyway..)
>
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