[linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2
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Well that was painless, just a couple make install's and an XF86Config-4
edit. And I got the nifty shadow too. 8)
Let's see what tuxracer and tuxcart can do.
A short while ago gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:
>
> Granted, as someone mentioned, it doesn't make your machine any better, but
> in my opinion it just looks nice... plus, it's nice to be able to say to my
> windows-using friends "so, i can do that too" when they brag about having
> shadow cursors, antialiased text, fading menus and all the other eyecandy...
> i'm big on eyecandy, but only if underlying applications do what i need them
> to do... for instance, despite all the various gui text editors (gnotepad+,
> gEdit, Kate, etc, etc, etc) i still prefer using VI on a plain console (well,
> as plain as a 1024x768 console can be)... i just like my GUI to have a nice,
> polished look so that when people see my desktop, they say "wow, that really
> is kewl... maybe i should try linux"...
>
> > I'm still running Debian Testing. AFAIK, XFree 4.2.0 has not even landed
> > in Unstable yet, so I'm a bit behind there. I just put a new system
> > together, an AMD Athlon, 1.33 GHz, and I also bought an nVidia GeForce 2
> > MX 400 board. After building the kernel with MTRR and AGP support, I
> > noticed the OpenGL stuff really smoothed out. I guess you're going to
> > convince me to try the nVidia drivers too.
>
> yup! ; ^ ) when i first tried them, the only thing i changed was the drivers
> (no settings, other kernel modules, etc) and i noticed a HUGE difference...
> for instance, MDK has some OpenGL arcade-like space game (reminiscent of the
> old 1942 arcade game) that i was unable to play before installing the nVidia
> drivers... the movement was choppy and almost unresponsive... I installed
> the nvidia drivers, turned on ALL the extra effects in the game (antialiased
> this and that, high res, etc) and now i can hardly keep up with it! :^ ) at
> first, i was a bit disappointed by my GF2 card, because I expected a HUGE
> improvement after coming from using my old STB Nitro3D 2MB PCI card... but
> after installing the nvidia drivers, i've been thoroughly impressed with the
> card... wouldn't trade it for anything (except maybe a GeForce4, but that
> may be a while! :^ ) ArmegeTron and GLTron work wonderfully now, too! and
> most importantly, my cursor has a shadow! ; ^ ) haahaa!
>
> Let me know if you have a similar improvement in performance... I'm
> interested in seeing if it makes as radical of a difference for other people
> as it did for me...
>
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- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, (continued)
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman), 2002/03/20
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, Nate Bargmann, 2002/03/20
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, Randy Reames, 2002/03/20
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, Nate Bargmann, 2002/03/20
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, Randy Reames, 2002/03/20
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman), 2002/03/21
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, Randy Reames, 2002/03/21
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman), 2002/03/25
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman), 2002/03/21
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman), 2002/03/21
- [linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2,
Randy Reames <=
- [linux-help] Re: nvidia drivers [was Mandrake 8.2], Randy Reames, 2002/03/21
- [linux-help] Re: nvidia drivers [was Mandrake 8.2], gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman), 2002/03/25
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