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From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:44:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <500A6BDB.6010208@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120721055507.GA1930@waltdnes.org>

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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


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-21  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20  7:24 [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ? Philip Webb
2012-07-20 11:40 ` v_2e
2012-07-20 12:06   ` Dale
2012-07-20 12:18     ` Florian Philipp
2012-07-20 17:44       ` Dale
2012-07-21  1:27         ` Philip Webb
2012-07-21  1:49           ` Alecks Gates
2012-07-21  2:15             ` Dale
2012-07-21  4:06             ` Michael Mol
2012-07-21  5:55             ` waltdnes
2012-07-21  8:44               ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2012-07-21  9:59                 ` v_2e
2012-07-22  3:13               ` Alecks Gates
2012-07-20 12:13   ` Michael Mol
2012-07-20 23:24     ` Mick
2012-07-21 12:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-07-21 12:56   ` microcai
2012-07-21 13:07   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-07-22  3:18   ` Alecks Gates
2012-07-22 13:14     ` Nikos Chantziaras

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