Re: etch RC1 installer

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> What about at high resolutions though? According to this[1] bug report at
> fd.o it's still broken and won't be fixed until at least Xorg 7.3. And the
> last time I used the nv driver it was noticably slower than the binary
> nvidia driver even at normal 2D desktop stuff, not that it was unusable or
> anything but the speed difference is significant.

I'm running amd64 Debian unstable at 1600x1200 on a 128Mb GF4200ti.

Up until a couple of months or so ago it was painfully slow. I couldn't play 
video above about 640x480, and other things (firefox, kpdf) were noticeably 
slower than they should be.

With current unstable everything seems to be working nice and quick. I can't 
tell any difference between the open-source and and binary drivers (except 
lack of 3d, obviously).

I never saw any error messages, so I don't know if it's related to the bug you 
reference.

Paul