On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:23:17 Nikhil Joshi wrote:
6215 is still not (auto) detected. Also gui's like GNOME and KDE (I guess you are using one of them ) aren't the lightest of desktops around.
How does that affect movie players? GNOME/KDE not light as in they require more system RAM. That shouldn't have much to do with VRAM. SiS cards, even if detected (like 6326), are driven by the SVGA X Server, instead of the Accelerated X Server. That's what causes the performance lag. Also, w/o hardware acceleration for video, the CPU speed also comes into picture along with the system load.
I have the same card and making X window run in 16 bit is a huge achievement . Playing movies.... are you sure you want to do this ? ;-)
Why not? My Athlon 600 MHz w/ a 4MB SiS 6326 plays movies fine as long as they're under 640x480 pixels. I run GNOME @ 1024x768x16 resolution. OK, the next one may be hard to digest but it's true - I could even play Quake II thru wine @ 640x480x16 without getting the jerks!
My opinion Movies: Best watched in theatres or on Xing Player ;-)
Echoed, sans the Xing (or your fav. player here) Player.
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How does that affect movie players? GNOME/KDE not light as in they require
more system RAM. That shouldn't have
much to do with VRAM. SiS cards, even if detected (like 6326), are driven
by the SVGA X Server, instead of the
I'm not sure but the jazzy icon colors,plethora of small icons on taskbar,the brilliant color schemes (themes) (especially in GNOME) must be taking some VRAM right? In case of 6215 there is meagre 1MB or 2 MB in some cases. I always thought that drivers made for a specific hardware were much better than those made for a generic ones. Maybe that's the problem.
. Playing movies.... are you sure you want to do this ? ;-)
Why not? My Athlon 600 MHz w/ a 4MB SiS 6326 plays movies fine as long as
they're under 640x480 pixels. I run
GNOME @ 1024x768x16 resolution.
Mine: Cyrix MII 300 (~233 MHz Pentium) 64 MB SDRAM 2MB Sis 6215 800X600 8bit colors
Xing (Redmond): Full screen display no prob whatsoever (hallelujah !) Gtv (Linux): umm.. lot of frames. not satisfactory.
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