On Wednesday 16 December 2009 17:02:15 Clayton wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 16:48, Roger Oberholtzer
wrote: GX260 Radeon 7500s work just fine for people who only need their puters for getting work done and thus no need for 3DFX bling and closed source drivers. They do work better than 845G video, so I use them in other systems by pulling them from the Dells during refurb.
The need for bling is no longer limited to fancy desktop effects. Try using google map without it. I use it in my work. I am also starting to come across data viewing apps that are using libraries that require accelerated graphics. Of course, this is not unexpected. It has always been said the the bling is not the point. The point it to make all software take better advantage of the graphics hardware. That is starting.
Yup.. desktop effects are only a small portion of what uses the accelerated graphics capabilities.. XBMC for example.. it won't start for me unless I have the binary drivers installed.. MythTV performance is horrible until accelerated graphics capable drivers are installed. GoogleEarth is another... there are a lot more.
OK, you can easily argue that these apps are not "necessary" to do "real work" whatever that is.. but in Lynn's case, it's a test for Linux as a home computer, not a server, not a "work" computer.
The open source ATI drivers do work for basic stuff, but so far, I've not had much good success with them on the apps that need more graphics capabilities. For example, on 11.2 on my system with the ATI 1250, using the community drivers (only option now with that card), I get loads of graphics artifacts - something that was reported on the list already.
C.
No problem here. Dell 260's Intel graphics work as of xorg last January. It was an opensuse update. We only use openoffice. L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org