Thank you, *everyone*, for the very helpful and detailed replies! I am much more confident of that chip now. Looks like "it's a Buy" ;D
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:30:05 +0530, aditya menon wrote: > > > I'm planning to get a new computer, and the one I really like is an > > All-in-one from Lenovo with *ATI HD 6450 *graphics. Does anyone have > > experience with that? I made a huge mistake last time by getting an > > nVidia Optimus card, it turned out that neither Linux nor many games > > work properly with it (nVidia's fault for not releasing proper drivers). > > I tried a lot of stuff including bumblebee etc (which doesn't work but > > I botched the uninstall and it still lives on my computer) > > > > I want to mitigate that risk this time... please help? Thanks! > > I find the current graphics card market very unpleasant for linux users: > > 1/ Intel chipsets are usually well supported from the open source driver > but their hardware is (or "can be", depending on the user needings) a bit > lacking. > > 2/ nVidia has a good deal between their hardware (apart from their > "bambidubi" thingy, of course) and driver but you probably end up using > the closed source one which is very good but non free. > > 3/ ATI... well, ATI has (or should have by now) a good open source driver > (radeon) and also powerful VGA cards/chipsets but you'd first ensure the > chipset you are planning to buy is supported within the kernel version > you planning to install. > > Let's see. ATI HD 6450 pertains to their "northern island (caicos)¹" > series and looking into the Xorg card matrix², it seems this chipset > is supported since kernel 2.6.38 (remember that Squeeze has an older > kernel 2.6.32 but there's still the backported one 3.2.x). > > ¹ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Northern_Islands_.28HD_6xxx.29_series > ² > http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature#Feature_Matrix_for_Free_Radeon_Drivers > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jtk192$4fh$6...@dough.gmane.org > > -- sincerely, aditya menon --------------------- +919666689309 --------------------- http://www.forrst.me/adityamenon
