* Felix Miata
Patrick Shanahan composed on 2019-08-14 16:49 (UTC-0400):
he is a photographer and needs to work raw photo images and if there> exists OSS video drivers sufficient to do this work, I have not seen them. Have you /tried/ to see any in the past year? 3 years? 6 years? Seems to me there should have been enough software and hardware improvement over time to make up any difference in whatever the best for still images was when you bought your GTS 450 for FOSS and/or newer other GPUs to handle as well now.
I installed Darktable here on 15.1 and/or 15.0 on an iMac, but so far I haven't managed to remember to get my sister to try it. If this thread had started yesterday it could have happened, as she was here, working. She's been a pro photographer more than 40 years, but still uses Win7, which I'd /really/ like to get her off of, on a Retina Macbook, for Photoshop. I lent her my Mamiya 645 1000S over 30 years ago and never got it back. She wore it out, then went to digital.
For what I watch her do I find it hard to imagine FOSS incapable of handling acceptably after so many iterations of its existence. They're only still images (TIFF?), not 4K video.
last time I tried several years ago, I could not get the same screen resolution with foss as I could with NVidia. admittedly, I have not tried for several years. fwiw, I am using foss on my toshiba laptop but the screen is only capable of # inxi -GssX System: Host: toshiba Kernel: 5.2.7-1-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.1.1 Console: N/A wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20190810 Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1616 Display: server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: intel compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 19.1.3 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes my work machine with NV GTS450 is 1920x1080 -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org