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