ReiserFS, WiFI and 3D & DVDs
Lionel Bouton
Lionel.Bouton at inet6.fr
Thu Nov 13 10:18:33 UTC 2003
David Balazic wrote the following on 11/13/2003 10:53 AM :
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>>From: Jack Aboutboul[SMTP:jaboutboul at speakeasy.net]
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>>On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 17:03, Luis-Miguel Astudillo wrote:
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>>>Why is :
>>>ReiserFS, XFS missing from this distro ?
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>> Because its not and because you dont know how to read release notes.
>>Boot the Installer and type linux reiserfs or linux xfs.
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>>>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.
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>> Oh Really? I have a laptop with a radeon 7500 and it works
>>flawlessly.
>>See this output from glxgears. Thats 3D.
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>> 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
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>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.
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Enemy Territory doesn't seem to be anywhere slow here.
>And is has display bugs. And stability bugs.
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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.
Cheers,
LB
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