On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:45, Steve Greenland wrote: > Don't these cards all support normal VESA modes? Are you saying that I > can't run a X on these cards, or that I can't run HW accelerated 3D on > these cards? Remember, there's a large population out here who simply > don't care about games. "Normal VESA modes" are incredibly painful. This isn't hardware accelerated 3D, this is the ability to use a large resolution or high color depth, have a refresh rate higher than 60Hz, or -- essentially -- take advantage of any PC video card development since around 1993. DGA, double-buffering in video memory, XVideo, whatever. When I was using the VESA driver for the Radeon Mobility in my laptop, such 3D-intensive tasks as loading GNOME, or rendering a page in Mozilla, took significantly (2x or more) longer. And, I believe some of the onboard Intel cards don't support normal VESA modes. I might be mistaken, but I remember that the i810 required DRI and a kernel driver, for normal operation. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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