[Q] Video Hardware Acceleration and Nvidia GPU driver - G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm new to the G Tablet so pardon for the ignorance or if this is already answered.
1. Where is the video/hardware acceleration supplied from? The ROM, or the kernel?
2. Is the video (movies) accel different from GPU accel (games)?
3. I have heard that Gingerbread doesn't work with Hardware accel on the G tablet (yet)...true?
4. I don't want to give up hardware acceleration, especially GPU acceleration for Ginger, and I also need NTFS reading to work...SO...would someone be kind enough to recommend a 2.2 ROM and kernel to give me HW accel and NTFS access?
Thanks!!

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I was just about to ask the same thing... Gotta have video hw acceleration.. I need to be able to play the 720p videos from my camera...

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For hardware acceleration for video, either stick with TNT Lite or Vegan. Both are very stable. TNT Lite has been getting update more as its Roebeets project while vegan hasn't seen any major updates for awhile, as gojimi's been working on vegan ginger.

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lordgodgeneral said:
For hardware acceleration for video, either stick with TNT Lite or Vegan. Both are very stable. TNT Lite has been getting update more as its Roebeets project while vegan hasn't seen any major updates for awhile, as gojimi's been working on vegan ginger.
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Which kernel? Do both TNT Lite and Vegan come with their own kernels that give NTFS access? I can see that Clemsyn Kernel offers NTFS support. And people seem to like "Calkulin+Clemsyn Froyo Combo". Opinions?

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ZenInsight said:
Which kernel? Do both TNT Lite and Vegan come with their own kernels that give NTFS access? I can see that Clemsyn Kernel offers NTFS support. And people seem to like "Calkulin+Clemsyn Froyo Combo". Opinions?
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I have Calkulin+Clemsyn Froyo on my GTab right now, it's pretty snappy. I'm running LauncherPro on it and using Dolphin HD a browser with Android File Explorer. No problems with performance at all.
Sadly, just like stock TnT and TnT Lite, it still doesn't see the PEAP wireless here at work.

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I ran Vegan 5.1 for quite awhile before the gingerbread roms came out. I used pershoot's kernal for it, mainly so I could use droid wall. I know his also supports NTFS, but I'm sure its the same as Clemsyn's in the fact that you have to manually mount it before you can access it (Could be wrong, found it just easier to reformat my external to fat32)

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lordgodgeneral said:
I ran Vegan 5.1 for quite awhile before the gingerbread roms came out. I used pershoot's kernal for it, mainly so I could use droid wall. I know his also supports NTFS, but I'm sure its the same as Clemsyn's in the fact that you have to manually mount it before you can access it (Could be wrong, found it just easier to reformat my external to fat32)
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Manually mount it? I have a 1.5tb external usb drive I want to access? No go?

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ZenInsight said:
I'm new to the G Tablet so pardon for the ignorance or if this is already answered.
1. Where is the video/hardware acceleration supplied from? The ROM, or the kernel?
2. Is the video (movies) accel different from GPU accel (games)?
3. I have heard that Gingerbread doesn't work with Hardware accel on the G tablet (yet)...true?
4. I don't want to give up hardware acceleration, especially GPU acceleration for Ginger, and I also need NTFS reading to work...SO...would someone be kind enough to recommend a 2.2 ROM and kernel to give me HW accel and NTFS access?
Thanks!!
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I used Calkulin+Clemsyn at first. It was stable, responsive. The rom somehow automatically blocks the online ads, which is good at some sense, but not to me. When I got to youtube from the browser, I see a "404 error" in the screen which normally it's ad. I can't use the "sogoul" - chinese pinyin/handwriting keyborad as the rom only has english, spanish(not sure) languare pack. Then I try vegan 5.1.1. The rom is not as responsive compare to Calkulin. But since it does not block the ad, I don't have "404 error" on youtube or anyother other site that may has a ad on the front page(like Hulu.com). Hulu works but very laggy, but Youtube is perfect fine, not problem at all (well, didn't try the HD movie, just 360). Vegan 5.1.1 has manay language support pack, I was able to just download "sogoul" ime and installed, go to setting - keborad - select "sogoul" without apply the "move the keyborad file into system/data step". Long hold the screen, "Sogoul" shows up as part of the input method option. I am now can hand write/pinyin chinese character just like the Iphone/Ipad. Video playback is about similar, not able to play 720p file(mkv). Regular avi(size around 700mb) or rmvb is fine with rockplayer. Vegan rom gives me what I needed and I probably will stick with it even there is new stock rom comes out. I do hope the video hardware acceleration works in the future. Personally, Calkulin's rom is most stable, fast/responsive. Vegan is pretty stable, but didn't feel as solid or fast compare to Calkulin. But I like it because my needs for more language support.

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lordgodgeneral said:
I ran Vegan 5.1 for quite awhile before the gingerbread roms came out. I used pershoot's kernal for it, mainly so I could use droid wall. I know his also supports NTFS, but I'm sure its the same as Clemsyn's in the fact that you have to manually mount it before you can access it (Could be wrong, found it just easier to reformat my external to fat32)
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Hey bud. What do you mean by manually mount? I have an external NTFS USB drive I want to access. No good?

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CodeNinja said:
Sadly, just like stock TnT and TnT Lite, it still doesn't see the PEAP wireless here at work.
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I'm using EAP at work with TNT Lite 4.4. I had to replace the settings app temporarily with another that gave me the advanced wireless settings I needed. Once I had it working, I switched it back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857939
has the zip files.

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ZenInsight said:
Hey bud. What do you mean by manually mount? I have an external NTFS USB drive I want to access. No good?
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He means, plug in your drive via USB then go into settings, mounts and storage and pick your device and use the "mount" option associated with that device. Then be sure to do the same, but choose the unmount option before unplugging the drive from the USB port.

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hitekredneck said:
He means, plug in your drive via USB then go into settings, mounts and storage and pick your device and use the "mount" option associated with that device. Then be sure to do the same, but choose the unmount option before unplugging the drive from the USB port.
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Ok. I see. No auto mount. Manual from the menu. Oh well.

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baywalk123 said:
I used Calkulin+Clemsyn at first. It was stable, responsive. The rom somehow automatically blocks the online ads, which is good at some sense, but not to me. When I got to youtube from the browser, I see a "404 error" in the screen which normally it's ad. I can't use the "sogoul" - chinese pinyin/handwriting keyborad as the rom only has english, spanish(not sure) languare pack. Then I try vegan 5.1.1. The rom is not as responsive compare to Calkulin. But since it does not block the ad, I don't have "404 error" on youtube or anyother other site that may has a ad on the front page.
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Ad blocking is done by the hosts file at /etc/hosts you can easily turn the blocking off removing the ad blocking lines in there, its just a text file. Make a backup of the file before editing, the first line with "127.0.0.1 localhost" needs to remain.
Or download adfree from the market and use the revert option, should do it for you.

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720p movie trailers on apple.com/trailers play fine on VEGAn 5.1.1 with Clemsyn's V9 kernel using moboplayer. Haven't tried any downloaded files yet.
I mount my external ntfs drive with one click using the script from this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12795200
Hope that helps.

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So which rom is most stable giving hd video youtube and allows mouse with gsensor fixed?
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I'm using VEGAn-Tab 5.1.1 for mouse support, and it plays a wide range of files, even 4 gig avi 720p files hardware mode.

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for mouse usage -> vegan. I can't get the mouse to work with my TNT but that's no issue for me. Far too stable to even consider changing rom.

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amusedkid said:
for mouse usage -> vegan. I can't get the mouse to work with my TNT but that's no issue for me. Far too stable to even consider changing rom.
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Can you test something for me
I made a post earlier
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13007010#post13007010
If anyone else in this thread running vegan 5.1.1 could test out your screen calibration, specifically the issue i am having in the linked thread.