Hi! Nice paper. Egon already raised the point I had in mind - GPL vs BSD licensing discussion (seemed unfinished, I have missed the reasoning which led to the push for BSD, sounded like intent to close Avogadro and sell it).
C , 2012-05-17 17:08 +0200, Egon Willighagen rakstīja: > > Fair point, indeed. It's running 'i915'... that's kind of something I > miss in Debian GNU/Linux... clear suggestions on what less free but > better performing modules I can use. For better or worse, Intel works very closely to upstreams for their graphics drivers. They don't have proprietary binary blobs. The best performance is offered by their newest drivers with SNA (sandybridge acceleration architecture; works also for older generation GPUs despite the name). The downside is that to get the newest intel drivers all graphics stack has to be updated, that includes kernel, libdrm, mesa, X server and xf86-video-intel (with SNA enabled). I'm not familiar with the state of Debian in this respect. I'm using Gentoo with linux 3.3, xorg-server 1.12 and the rest of the components building from git. I think most of the SNA work was merged in mesa 8.0 and xf86-video-intel 2.18 (since mesa 8.0 intel driver supports OpenGL v3.0, not sure if for all generations tough), at least Debian unstable seems to have them. I have Intel Sandybridge CPU with iGPU and I would say that it performs reasonably well. For graphically heavier tasks (applications) I'm using discrete Nvidia GPU through Bumblebee (I have one of those Optimus laptops with Intel iGPU and Nvidia dGPU). At this point stability is the bigger issue, performance for Intel will improve with time and also for Optimus will improve even further with Prime project. As for Avogadro's crashyness, in my experience it is not uncommon at all. The biggest problems have been with automatic hydrogen adjustment when drawing (those should be fixed by now) and sometimes completely mysterious crashes. Lately I'm using git version of Avogadro, so I'm probably seeing different set of issues as stable. Tough my usage of Avogadro is not heavy enough to give it serious testing. Reinis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Avogadro-Discuss mailing list Avogadro-Discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-discuss
