[mythtv-users] New Nvidia drivers announced

[Chris Delis]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:36:26PM -0800, David Rees wrote:
> David Rees wrote:
> >On Tue, December 23, 2003 at 1:53 pm, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday 23 December 2003 13:08, David Rees wrote:
> >>
> >>>And I found out that -4496 wasn't really working for me as when running
> >>>any GL program (like glxgears) would crash X.  Now running -5328 and
> >>>glxgears I get like 1300 fps.
> >>
> >>Um, 1300 is really crappy. My system, 4363 drivers:
> >>
> >>$ glxgears
> >>21654 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4330.800 FPS
> >>
> >>I think you have a problem there...
> >
> >I've got a Duron 800, 320MB PC100, NVidia FX 5200.
> >
> >I'll try the 4363 drivers and see how they do, too.
> 
> OK, I tried the 4363 drivers, they seem to work MUCH better than the 
> -5328 and -4496 drivers for me.
> 
> Now I'm getting about 2000 FPS from glxgears, overscan works so I can 
> get rid of the blackspace at the edges of my TV, and the image is MUCH 

You mean to tell me they didn't fix overscan in this version?!  I find it
to be one of the most important features for a consumer TVOUT card.  Gawd,
I wish they'd just open source their code . . .



> more stable in X.  I couldn't test glxgears with the -4496 drivers, when 
> I run glxgears it crashes the X server.  Strangely enough, MythTV worked 
> fine with these drivers as long as I didn't pick the wrong visualization 
> when playing music.
> 
> You'd think that drivers would get better as they get older, but that 
> seems to not be the case.
> 
> -Dave
> 

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