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...
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org