On 07/17/2011 07:16 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/07/17 09:05 (GMT-0400) Stan Goodman composed:
Since there is no available driver for the Intel HD Integrated Graphics card on the Intel MB I bought last week, I've inquired about supported PCI Express cards that I could install instead. My usual merchant carries cards of Ndivia and ATI, and has in stock ATI HD3650.
A web search assures me that this card belongs to the Redeon series; <man ati> says that Radeon is supported, so I assume that this one is.
He also has similar Nvidia cards. I am shying away from Nvidia because I have seen over the years so many discussions about difficulties, perhaps quirks in the available drivers, that make them seem like avoidable trouble. And yet I know that many buy and use them, so I am perhaps exaggerating the risk. I'd be happy to read any comment anyone has to offer about this.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-07/msg00172.html is the last thread on this subject in this forum, less than two weeks ago. I'll view it. If you find spending money because your Intel hardware is too new for full support annoying: neither, at least until you've tried Tumbleweed, and failing that as a solution, thought about accepting 1024x768 for a few weeks or months until full Sandy Bridge support shows up in 11.4+Tumbleweed. I investigated Tumbleweed when you mentioned it a few days ago. I didn't find that there was a ready solution for the problem, and the introductory page was careful to emphasize the as-is nature of the goal of Tumbleweed. As I wrote to Mike in this thread, I am all for waiting for a proper driver for the graphics card I have, not least, but not only, because it will be free (as in free beer). That's why I asked him about his estimate of a time frame. Weeks is trivial; months is bearable; more than that is unnecessary.
If games and/or maximum 3D performance matter to you: NV I don't play games.
I stay away from games and infrequently fuss over lack of performance, so stick mostly to Intel, ATI, & even MGA, and always to FOSS drivers. I get frustrated attempting to use NV, as evidenced just last night: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706305
I mentioned in my query that this was my impression from years of seeing discussions on forums, and not only on Linux forums.
More NV frustration sitting in my SUSE mailboxes: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706024#c3 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-07/msg00259.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-xorg/2011-07/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-10/msg00241.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-03/msg00705.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675793#c8 Multiple private threads between myself and Bob S, who frequently comes here for openSUSE on NV help.
I begin to comprehend your point. Thanks, to you and the others... -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org