Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

Hello!

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:44:11 +0200
Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:

> Am 21.07.2012 07:55, schrieb 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

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