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That's great so long as nVidia supports your card. The problem with the binary |
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drivers is that they typically only support a percentage of all the cards the |
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video maker makes. |
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For example, I can't use the ATI binary driver on my laptop since it no longer |
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supports the R250 chipset, only their latest 3 or 4 generations of cards. So I |
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have to use the OSS driver, which works great with it. |
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I have been able to use both the OSS and proprietary drivers on my desktop with |
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an nVidia card, but I don't know how much longer that will last. |
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nVidia's proprietary driver is good namely because it is the same at the core as |
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on Windows and Mac, and they wrap it to make it work with the *nix kernels. |
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However, they also do a lot of other funky stuff and keep people from being able |
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to fully use the full extend of X. Just search this list (among others) for |
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xRanderer and other components of X and you'll see the full story of nVidia's |
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proprietary driver. |
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Ben |
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>From: App Deb <appdebgr@×××××.com> |
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>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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>Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 5:29:10 AM |
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>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers |
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>If you are going to use any *nix, nvidia is the best option for years now. The |
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>nvidia closed source drivers are of professional quality and have great |
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>performance. Actually they are the *standard* for graphics in *nix, and many |
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>(professional or not) applications actually support only nvidia. |
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>The ati oss driver is still under development, sometimes it works ok, sometimes |
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>not, and it is mostly for basic desktop usage and in my opinion it is |
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>progressing too slow. Anyway, I don't like having a driver that uses 10% of my |
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>hardware's capabilties. So until it actually reaches 100% (like the rest of the |
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>linux drivers) I can't recommend ATI on linux and nvidia is the way to go. |
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>On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> |
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>wrote: |
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>Am 26.07.2010 01:01, schrieb James: |
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>>> Florian Philipp <lists <at> f_philipp.fastmail.net> writes: |
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>>>> I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility |
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>>>> Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect |
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>>>> Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable? |
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>>> Well, lots of good information previously posted. Here's a |
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>>> few more tidbits. When ATI video get's older, there's |
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>>> always good opensource solutions to keep using it. Nvidia, |
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>>> sometimes you toss in garbage can, or use vesa or |
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>>> get lucky? Dunno, as I personally avoid Nvidia; other |
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>>> insist on Nvidia..... kinda a religious thing with some..... |
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>>Hehe, religious is the right word. I remember a situation at my |
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>>workplace: The admin of our departement IT ordered a Linux workstation |
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>>with (fully supported) ATI graphics. At the last second he was overruled |
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>>by the head of our institute's IT in favor of a completely unsupported |
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>>and more expensive NVidia card. Not only did the poor guy have to wait |
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>>two more weeks for the shipment to arrive, he was also stuck with the |
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>>VESA driver for half a year and unstable NVidia drivers ever since. |
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>>Well, thanks everyone who answered! Problem solved. |
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>>Florian Philipp |
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