[NBLUG/talk] How to configure Xorg for a 1080p display?

William Tracy afishionado at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 19:51:29 PDT 2007


On 6/18/07, Lincoln Peters <sampln at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I probably won't be just buying a video card.  I tried playing a video on
> YouTube, and while it looked OK on a 1360x768 display, it used nearly 100% of
> the CPU.  So I suspect that anything, more sophisticated or the same, on a
> 1920x1080 display would be overwhelming for it.  I probably need a whole new
> computer for this.

YouTube is Flash-based; Flash's ability to use hardware acceleration
seems pretty limited. You might have better luck at high resolution
with a *real* media player. :-)

> On the other hand, it seems to run Rhythmbox just fine (and it's connected to
> the same 5-speaker system as the rest of the entertainment system), and even
> at less-than-full resolution, it's still fun to look at less GPU-intensive
> websites such as <http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/>...

I showed my mom that site yesterday. Much time was wasted. :-)

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