Re: Nvidia 3D

2010-04-18 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 17:11 +, hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: Where do I go to get 3D drivers for Nvidia 6550 card Running f12 on an HP DV6T 1 Gig Ram 250 Gig HD Also how to install Thanks rpmfusion.org. Instruc

Re: Nvidia 3D

2010-04-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Where do I go to get 3D drivers for Nvidia 6550 card Running f12 on an HP DV6T 1 Gig Ram 250 Gig HD Also how to install Thanks -Inline Attachment Follows- You may get the the drivers from nvidia site, but the recommended way to get thim is through rpmfusion: http://rpmfusion.org/Ho

Nvidia 3D

2010-04-18 Thread hewjr1000
Where do I go to get 3D drivers for Nvidia 6550 card Running f12 on an HP DV6T 1 Gig Ram 250 Gig HD Also how to install Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-15 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
Gary, On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:15 PM, gary artim wrote: > Don -- > > That would be great, please report back. I have clients using borken > system with ati hd 4770 cards. Have a > bug started but not much action so far. Considering swapping in Nvidia > cards so they can at least see there > work

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-15 Thread gary artim
Don -- That would be great, please report back. I have clients using borken system with ati hd 4770 cards. Have a bug started but not much action so far. Considering swapping in Nvidia cards so they can at least see there work cleanly. -- Gary On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Don Quixote de la M

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-14 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Those drivers are unlikely to work on F11. I tried rebuilding the F12 mesa > SRPM for F11 in a Koji scratch build, it didn't even build. It'll be much > easier to just upgrade to F12. For now, I'm just going to do a plain kernel build from Da

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > Someone has pointed out to me where I need to go to download and build > the source that might enable 3D accelleration on my ($$$) ATI Radeon > 4870HD card. I plan to give that a try next. Those drivers are unlikely to work on F11. I tried rebuilding the F12 mesa

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 04:46:36 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > > Someone has pointed out to me where I need to go to download and build > the source that might enable 3D accelleration on my ($$$) ATI Radeon > 4870HD card. I plan to give that a try next. If you are using F12 you sho

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-13 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
Seeing as how glxgears isn't a good benchark, and that Extreme Tux Racer won't even run on my box, I installed the Phoronix Test Suite, then told it to install the idquake3-games benchmark suite. A suite in Phoronix is a set of related benchmark tests. One can perform individual benchmarks, or al

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
gary artim wrote: > hey, so the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental needed in addition to the > radeon driver? If you want 3D acceleration on the Radeon HD (up to 4xxx) cards, yes. > could this help with garbled screens I get from the radeon driver or kde? Probably not. That's probably a bug in the 2D

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thursday 11 February 2010 10:08 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: >> On Thursday 11 February 2010 06:04 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> AFAIK, the radeon driver doesn't support 3D acceleration for HD4*** family >>> of >>> cards. and tha

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 06:04 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> AFAIK, the radeon driver doesn't support 3D acceleration for HD4*** family of >> cards. and that is probably the reason why tuxracer doesn't work. However, I >> don't know why glx

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thursday 11 February 2010 06:04 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > AFAIK, the radeon driver doesn't support 3D acceleration for HD4*** family of > cards. and that is probably the reason why tuxracer doesn't work. However, I > don't know why glxinfo reports that direct rendering is active in this case.

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > AFAIK, the radeon driver doesn't support 3D acceleration for HD4*** family of > cards. and that is probably the reason why tuxracer doesn't work. However, I > don't know why glxinfo reports that direct rendering is active in this case. Ah,

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Friday 12 February 2010 01:04:37 Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > This is very odd: on my F11 box at home, with the Radeon card... > > > You can check for direct rendering like this: > > > > glxinfo | grep direct > > > > If it says "yes", then all should be well. :-) > > Indeed it says yes, a

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
This is very odd: on my F11 box at home, with the Radeon card... On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Is 3D actually turned on? You can have both hardware and drivers which support > 3D, but have xorg.conf that disables it, or something like that. You can check > for direct r

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 11 February 2010 14:21:51 Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Ah that is why my work box has such a high framerate - the > closed-source nVidia driver can use undocumented features that have > not yet been reversed-engineered for

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread gary artim
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: >> How well is radeonhd's 3D accelleration expected to work in Fedora 11? > > The "radeonhd" driver is not really supported in Fedora (some volunteer is > packaging it as an alternative, but it's not the recomme

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > How well is radeonhd's 3D accelleration expected to work in Fedora 11? The "radeonhd" driver is not really supported in Fedora (some volunteer is packaging it as an alternative, but it's not the recommended driver), you should use the default "radeon" driver, or

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > The idea of 2D and 3D acceleration is to take the load off the processor. So > you should not expect the performance of accelerated graphics to depend on the > CPU model. Not too much, anyway. That depends on the application. Some 3D "acc

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 11 February 2010 12:38:38 Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > How well is radeonhd's 3D accelleration expected to work in Fedora 11? > > My box at work and my box at home are both Core 2 Quad Xeons. The idea of 2D and 3D acceleration is to take the load off the processor. So you should

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > However while the nVideo card at work can run glxgears at a frame rate > of 5000 FPS, my Radeon can only do 300! Note that glxgears has always been considered a bad speed test. Better base your speed doubts on something else. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robe

ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-11 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
How well is radeonhd's 3D accelleration expected to work in Fedora 11? I did a "yum update" recently. My box at work and my box at home are both Core 2 Quad Xeons. My work box runs Ubuntu 8.10 and has an nVidia card - lspci says: nVidia Corporation Device 0658 (rev a1) lsmod shows that it's