Re: [MLUG] good video card choice to run Beryl?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jonathan King wrote:
> I am trying to spec out a cheap-ish Linux box that, however, should
> have graphics performance good enough to support the next-generation
> GL-based GUIs, e.g., Beryl.
>
> As it happens, the possibilities seem to be pretty much infinite. For
> all I know, you can get acceptable 3-D and GL performance out of one
> of the Intel integrated graphics solutions, but it's not too easy to
> find out whether this is true or not. Does anybody out there know of
> any good solutions out there that are substantially better than
> integrated graphics in the less than $150 range, or should I just not
> bother optimizing this choice and instead just get a hideous amount of
> RAM? :-)
>
> jking

I went ahead and spent the whole weekend getting beryl to work on 
FreeBSD.  So it really is a lot of fun.  I am just now trying it on a 
Pentium 4 with an nvidia 5200 card, and it works just fine.  So the 
jerkiness I reported earlier is probably the slow processor, not the 
video card.  And by the way, this is with one of those super wide flat 
screens at full resolution, so the video card is definitely being worked 
at full blast.

I also tried it on my laptop with a Go5200, but whenever I initiate 
beryl the screen goes mostly black, although beryl is obviously working 
at some level.  But I have always had to work hard to get this video 
card to play well.



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