AW: [MPlayer-users] ati radeon 8500

[Jukka Tastula]

On Sunday 10 March 2002 19:35, Jakub Steiner wrote:

> This is not to pour gas into a flame, but for me personally the nvidia
> driver crashes when using a framebuffer console. switching over from X
> to console freezes and sometimes even leaving X.

Same here. Simply shutting down X and then startting it again causes the 
thing to freeze before X comes up again.  I guess framebuffer is not a good 
idea with nvidia :)

> I have yet to try the newest drivers, but this issue stayed unresolved
> for ages. But on the other hand the nv driver that comes with my xfree
> 4.1 actually does xv. It's been stated here before it doesn't. It's kind
> of a waste not to have accelerated glx though.

I think it was said xv is only supported for geforce2, not all of nvidia 
cards.