From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SHZFR-00084H-GT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:28:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 064DFE0D19; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF33E0D59 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:26:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508DE1B4020 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:26:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.536 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.536 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.063, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_FAIL=0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7TO-neCicQO5 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com (ironport-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.143.162]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A581B4017 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:26:30 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApQIACxOgk9MCof5/2dsb2JhbABDuCMDgQyBCIJKHHImJSQTiA6daJhKi2GEFmMEjW+HfIYCiFiBXYMD X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="173063962" Received: from 76-10-135-249.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.135.249]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2012 07:26:28 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:26:21 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:26:21 -0400 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers? Message-ID: <20120410112621.GA10304@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: f132c2ec-3852-4509-8500-4bca49bb61c1 X-Archives-Hash: 2e643bb3f7669c3f896f6e2e8935ecd4 With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast enough to keep up. E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer. On some html5 videos (Firefox with USE="webm"), The download is actually a touch faster than the playback, and there's no buffering at all. Some of you may remember my struggles to get my 4-year-old Dell to eventually display hockey games on NHL GameCenter even at the lowest available speed using the onboard Intel GPU. Well, I can play the HD Youtube videos with the "small player" or "large player", but fullscreen is hopeless. The onboard GPU can't keep up. So I'm looking at getting a PCI video card. Any relatively new PCI video card that is supported by an open-source driver, including hardware acceleration? Any experiences, good/bad/so-so? -- Walter Dnes