Re: New video card

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On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>On 13 April 2010 18:50, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Greets all;
>>
>> I have a PNY, PCI-e, GForce 9400 GT card still in the box.  What sort of
>> support will it have with the neauvou (sp) driver when I install F13
>> beta?
>
>You can get a basic overview of what is complete here (that is an NV50
>based card):
>
>http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
>
Thanks Sam.

It could be worse, compare that to the current radeon drivers performance 
when there is an rv610 at the end of the bus.  That has been so slow becoming 
even 'usable' that I am becoming discouraged with ATI's efforts to convince 
us they like linux.  Only the high end cards get any tlc at all, and I took 
to building kernel.org kernels just to get rid of the broken drm that caused 
wild screen blanking anytime an overlay image touched the right border of the 
screen, and that was only fixed well at 2.6.34-rc2, after complaining & 
filing bz reports for over 22 months.  But the ATI 2400HD Pro's price rapidly 
reduced from the $80 I paid, descending to less than $40 by the time the 
supply pipeline was emptied.  And cheap cards get no TLC from the folks at 
xorg.  Funny thing though, they probably sell 20 similar $50 cards for every 
one of the $400+ cards that goes out the door.

>But it changes regularly and I bet that updating the FeatureMatrix is
>not a top priority when there is development work to be done. You will
>probably get the same or more functionality to that promised in the
>FeatureMatrix.
>
Sounds as if its at least worth the try, thanks Sam.

>I also have an NV50 based card in my Work Desktop, and I'm interested
>in the results you get as I can't just tinker with my workstation as I
>need it to work!
>
>F13 on my Intel-based laptop hums along nicely though ;o)
>
I'm about to try it myself, but it had better run at least 20x faster than 
F12 did.  Why?  Because it ran at about 5% of the speed 32 bit F10 ran at on 
this box, or Mandriva-2010-x64 which is what I have booted at the instant.  I 
haven't tried a 32 bit install on the old original linux box from 1997 that 
is sitting under the next desk needing a D&C badly, which has a 500Mhz K6-III 
and 384 megs of ram in it.  But the last time I did have it booted to RH7.3, 
it ran many times faster than F12 ran on this slow, only 2.1Ghz, quad core 
phenom with 4Gib of 800 Mhz dram in it.  Why was it so slow?  Damnifiknow, 
htop didn't give me any clues.  But 3+ minutes to launch kmail, after around 
10 to get x started, or nearly 5 minutes from click to partially usable for 
firefox just doesn't cut it.  And I never did get 
kmail/fetchmail/procmail/spamassassin setup in the week I had it installed.  
So with no working email agent I couldn't post a question to ask.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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