On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:18:53 +0100 Xavier <shiningxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@xxxxxx> > wrote: > > Before using vesa driver you should at least give nouveau and nv > > driver a shot. > > Both lack on 3D support but for 2D operations they should work fine. > > Nouveau has nice kms support, which is nice if it works on your > > card. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau > > > > kms is nice indeed, but I am pretty sure there are many other > advantages of nouveau over nv > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > "2-D support is in fairly good shape with EXA acceleration, Xv and > Randr12 (dual-head, rotations, etc.). " > > For instance nv does not have xv, which is a must have for video > playback. And I don't know if nv supports exa and randr12. > > And nouveau kms also supports "suspend & resume". i installed xf86-video-nouveau on my box at home. for simple things it works fine. but for intensive applications (that do a lot of redrawing, i guess) such as rosegarden, it makes my PC really slow. also 2D games such as world of goo are unbearingly slow. and i won't start about 3D ;) this really sucks. i have a perfectly fine fx5800 card. it performs (performed) very well, sucks to have it labeled as "deprecated" and not being able to actually use it decently on a modern system. Dieter
