On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Stan Goodman
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.
I have an 18 month old Acer laptop with Radeon HD4200 chip. With the default Xorg drivers, video playback has been bad. Installing the ATI BLOB drivers solved the issue. Experience with Nvidia BLOB has also been good, except that in 11.4 I have not been able to get them to work (get blank screen). Switching back to the Xorg "nv" driver I get decent performance but not all of the KDE desktop effects. I can live without them and have not pursued a resolution with the NVidia BLOB. Bottom line - Visit the ATI/NVidia website and check the GPU chipset supported by the respective ATI/NVidia BLOBs drivers. -- Arun Khan A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org