From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SsWUW-00056M-NX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:00:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6512E0662; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fsm1.ukr.net (fsm1.ukr.net [195.214.192.120]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CA4E0662 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:59:16 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ukr.net; s=fsm; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-Id:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=0xUGLCwd+faw1qxc/afV+HaYgQJyDWDreHCvh3l/vDo=; b=AdODYGCBggzZmV7PDjKqcD6nU8VU6hPJzQoV48PBFsDi1BxPoIaHL6sZsz+NPZETx45ziE96SBmFDu3kFC+cWNiqV5CpUIF8CFTryshuX0I2z/V1dTyt76OYitv0RaFgG5IZwiKb5913vQ4RscMl28qrbj3dQQtPufKdQnhkark=; Received: from [78.83.152.208] (helo=Ganymede) by fsm1.ukr.net with esmtpsa ID 1SsWSw-000MuN-FG ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:59:14 +0300 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:59:30 +0300 From: v_2e@ukr.net To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ? Message-Id: <20120721125930.efaf8d0658972709cea30e78@ukr.net> In-Reply-To: <500A6BDB.6010208@binarywings.net> References: <20120720072442.GD2871@ca.inter.net> <20120720144011.17d96b2fc9d0d0786e0d2e8b@ukr.net> <500949AF.7080704@gmail.com> <50094C7A.2080203@binarywings.net> <5009990B.80106@gmail.com> <20120721012719.GA2879@ca.inter.net> <20120721055507.GA1930@waltdnes.org> <500A6BDB.6010208@binarywings.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 17130fa0-9ebb-446d-9439-97f40101d592 X-Archives-Hash: 67260518537d64d1d729d10ba3f894b8 Hello! On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:44:11 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 21.07.2012 07:55, schrieb waltdnes@waltdnes.org: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:49:32PM -0500, Alecks Gates wrote > > > >> I'd pick AMD, and very likely one of their APUs if you don't need > >> intense graphics, as they seem to be able to handle most things > >> well and even some light gaming. > > > > How do AMD's and Intel's open source video drivers compare? > > > > Last time I tried to use AMD's open source driver, it worked well for > office applications and minor OpenGL (glxgears, desktop effects, etc.) > but it couldn't play a DVD on full screen (1920 * x) without frame > drops. (Yes, I tried tuning parameters with mplayer2). > > Intel's driver works well enough for this but it doesn't have much > head room, either. > > ATI's closed source driver works pretty well, too, nowadays. I had > trouble with xorg-server-1.12 but haven't investigated it, yet. > > Regards, > Florian Philipp > One of my friends uses ATI video card both on desktop and laptop machines and he told me recently that the free driver for ATI video chips ( http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ati ) is very good nowadays and is being actively developed. He also said that the performance of his video card with open-source driver in different modes is almost the same as with the proprietary driver. I just don't remember the exact video card model, unfortunately. And according to this article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NDE AMD releases the code for some newer chips as well. Which gives more chance for the new hardware to work good with GNU/Linux. Regards, Vladimir -----