To EDID or not to EDID, a Nouveau question.

[Member caprea]

Anyway, as long as everything runs smoothly now, does it ?
Well, I think the blacklisting worked. It is not always necessary to update-intrams, in any case the sudo was missing in command.
Do you like to share a
inxi -G
WOW, I love the bios-date 08/25/98 !

[Member LostRider]

$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1024x768~85Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV34 v: 1.5 Mesa 13.0.6 
xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-1 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 310mm x 230mm
   1024x768      85.00*+  75.03  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   800x600       85.06    75.00  
   640x480       85.01    75.00    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by rokytnji.

[Member LostRider]

Thank YOU!! I was watching youtube in glorious 144p last night before I went to bed. Don’t know why flashplayer was crashing firefox earlier, would chromium and pepperflashplayer do the same you think? I’d also like to play DVD’s, something I’ve not getten a Linux Distro to do yet without having to pay for it. I have a copy of PowerDVD, a old one. When I “Upgraded” my Windows7 to 10, I knew I had that as a backup, not knowing that I’d have to run windows 98 in a emulator to watch DVD’s, which my newer system dosen’t have the horsepower to do. Wondering if WINE couldn’t do it…hmm I know it’ll work if I do a Dual Boot with Windows ME (LOL) which I have the disk and codes for, but really I’d rather not! It would be a fun retro gaming PC though…

[Member caprea]

Most videos on the web nowadays use HTML5 and not flash, especially youtube.
For DVD you have to install the unfree codecs. They are in the control-centre under drivers(free of charge)I’m not sure if the nvidiacard with the nouveau is capable of playing them nicely though, but give it a try.
One more question just comes to my mind, you said you installed with a cd, so did you install the the base version ? Here’s a list of what you maybe miss then sooner or later.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/difference-between-full-version-and-base-version-of-antix-17/
But now you can post-install what you need from this list (don’t know if libavcodec-extra is needed for dvd).

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Retro gaming ? On my P3 . I use the dosbox emulator in antiX games menu and make a folder in /home/harry called

harry@biker:~
$ cd Games
harry@biker:~/Games$ ls
Master_of_Orion2

instructions are in terminal
man dosbox

Flash plugin , Chrome browser. Forget aboiut it on a P2. Pale Moon non sse2 is my Favorite browser on my low spec single atom and P3 gear.

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by rokytnji.

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[Member LostRider]

rokytnji- I have discovered the sse2 “Problem” @ Chromium already, and yeah Pale Moon runs pretty good, though Firefox has a better framerate playing videos. both run about the same memory usage, so its going to be a question of taste I suppose. As far as Facebook, or online shopping, the PC fits the bill fine, if a bit slower than it was running Wary Puppy. Though I have to give Kudos to the development team for the easy to use Wi-Fi interface. This PC was basically frankenstiened from 3 PC’s which is how I ended up with “So much” RAM and odd components. I really miss the P2’s cartage motherboards, they make CPU swaps super easy. In this machine I had a 333 Celeron and a ATI 4mb card, both which went to storage. Though I don’t know enough about the video driver to understand what if any benefit having a decent card has on video quality…suppose I could test it.

[Member LostRider]

caprea I installed the Middle sized version, AKA the Base Distro, and sadly I missed the 17.2.1 release, having downloaded the 17.2 instead. Guess I need to do a sudo apt-get distro upgrade, huh? Thanks for the link, I thought that mostly I was missing the Word Processor, suppose there is a bit more to do 🙂

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