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For firmware <2.1, there is a driver which provides some 2D acceleration using the RSX. I am currently using it in Ubuntu 7.10 and am reasonably pleased: window moving is very smooth and quick, without the annoying artifacts which exist without acceleration. It supposedly also accelerates mplayer, b...

Sorry for leaving out the fact that the disk I was trying to read was in an external enclosure connected via USB (I had recently replaced the HD).

Thanks again,

Warren N

Jim, This brings up a related question, if you don't mind me going off-topic for a minute. I have not been able read in ps3 linux the otheros partition(s) of a disk which was originally created on the ps3. The disk mounted, but no useable otheros partition was visible. Any ideas? Thanks. Warren Nago...

ps2devman: Thanks for the explanation of the poor performance on h264.

keepcool: Were you able to play the killa.sample.x264.mkv using the spu based mplayer with good results?

Thanks.

-wn

Hello, I have the ps3rsx hack installed (with supposedly accelerated 2D xorg) and tried to play that sample using: mplayer -vo xv killa.sampla.x264.mkv and I get a very broken up video - short bursts of video and audio. Am I doing something wrong? Perhaps I should use the spu medialib approach if it...

Hi Bill, I am also very interested in PPC Mac OS (not necessarily OSX) emulation on the PS3. The first thing that came to mind was to run MOL (MacOnLinux). I have been in email communication with Joseph Jezak (the current author/proprietor of MOL) and he said that 64 bit kernels are not supported ye...

I strongly disagree about the "uslessness" of software rendered OpenGL. I suppose that it is useless for games and rendering of complicated scenes, but I wrote a program to analyze an optical instrument (a build-up cavity for enhanced second harmonic generation) and it is rendered very qui...

I had formerly wondered whether the accelerated Xorg was really accelerated. I based this on the fact that I was still getting multiple redraw rectangles when moving windows. Well, I had forgotten a critical step: run xcompmgr. No more redraw artifacts, no matter how large the windows and how many o...

Can someone suggest a way to confirm that Xorg acceleration is active? I still get redraw rectangles as I move windows over large firefix windows and I thought that this wasn't supposed to happen (particularly using "composite"). One clue is that monitor shows 0 bytes for Xorg. Are there a...

It seems to work now. 2D behavior seems much faster, with no redraw artifacts in most instances. The only exception is a large firefox window: Moving another window over it will display redrawing images (but they last a much shorter time than previously). Scrolling speed is not affected, so far as I...

I installed the .deb file (dpkg -i <package>.deb ) and modified the xorg.conf. Killing and restarting X resulted in a blank screen. I am using Ubuntu 7.10 with kernel 2.6.22-14-cell. Thanks to a remote connection, I was able to quickly restore things. Any suggestions welcomed. -Warren Nagourney

Hello, I am very much of a novice about kernel building and the various graphics-related topics here but have been very intrigued by the possibility of an accelerated Xorg, which would make a nearly unusable system at least tolerable. I originally was using YDL (hopeless for these cutting edge hacks...