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. -- Bruno Friedmann (irc:tigerfoot) Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member User www.ioda.net/r/osu Blog www.ioda.net/r/blog fsfe fellowship www.fsfe.org GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 vcard : http://it.ioda-net.ch/ioda-net.vcf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org