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Re: etch RC1 installer



On Wednesday 13 December 2006 15:24, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:23:41PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > The open source driver does support video overlays, and seems to provide
> > hardware acceleration (I see a 10x reduction in CPU usage when xv is
> > enabled).
> >
> > There were issues with older kernels/XOrg (I'm not sure which) that made
> > the open source driver very slow on amd64. These seem to have been
> > resolved now and it works fine for 2D and video.
>
> Oh good.  Well then the only reason for binary drivers is opengl I
> guess.  How about multi monitor support on one card?  Does the free
> driver do that yet?  How about tvout?

I don't know.

Paul



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