Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (32 mails)

["Terje J. Hanssen" <nteknikk@xxxxxxxx>]

Den 21. nov. 2010 20:09, skrev Bruno Friedmann:
> On 11/21/2010 04:57 PM, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm close to a needed workstation hardware upgrade and consider the following 
> > two, new interesting budget motherboards from
> > Asus. IMO this list contains some noticeable key features:
> >
> > Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3:
> > AM3/X3, ATI Radeon HD 4250, SATA-600 (RAID)/eSATA-port, HDMI, Firewire
> > Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3:
> > AM3/X3, ATI Radeon HD 4290, SATA-600 (RAID)/eSATA-port, HDMI, Firewire
> >
> > The basic SUSE Linux compatibility looks ok according to one comment found in 
> > this post
> > http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/hardware/437090-asus-mother-boards.html#post2217393
> >
> > What concern me is if the Linux drivers for the ATI graphics really are so bad 
> > that full HD video at 1920x1080p hardly is
> > possible to decode and playback on the integrated 4250/4290?
> >
> > Any comments/experiences to this?
> >
> > Reference articles
> > AMD Radeon HD 4290 On Linux
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd4290&num=1
> > AMD Radeon HD 4250 880G On Linux
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_radeon_hd4250&num=1
> >
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Terje J. Hanssen
> Hi Terje.
>
> I didn't test the asus, but the gigabyte counter part FX890 with a HD4290 work 
> quite well.
>
> About the HD4290 I'm pretty sure decoding h264 in full hd res wouldn't be 
> possible.
> but the fglrx work in that case.
> For standard effect (3D) desktop the radeon do something honest.
> Perhaps the new release in kernel&  xorg will give better result.
That's hold for me. I think there are so much powerful goodies on that 
boards to build a budget media center and video editing workstation, 
that I've decided to go for it. Indeed I also have some lower editing 
demands (HDV 10980i, M2T), and I also plan to add a typical BMD 
Intensity PCIe or USB3 capture equipment later (still Linux lacks the 
needed isocronous transfer for USB3)

And if adding a more powerful discrete graphical board later, can both 
Nvidia and ATI work w/o HD42xx ?


Thanks,
Terje J. Hanssen

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