On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:36:50PM +0100, Oliver Korpilla wrote: > I've stopped using ATI graphics drivers - they are regularly out of date, > and they have no process in place for submitting patches. Most of what bugs > these drivers is that they are coded to now deprecated interfaces, which can > easily be fixed, but sending fixes over ATI customer support sucks - I > tried.
Yeah I know. :) > Which I cannot - it's the only MicroATX board I've found, and the chassis is > MicroATX as well. I would need to: Get a new chassis, a new power supply > (now with the chassis), a new motherboard and a separate graphics adapter, > since the other boards I took a look at didn't have integrated graphics. Well there is Asus K8S-MX, but is is an SiS chipset, which may or may not be better than the ATI. MSI K8MM-ILSR and K8TM-ILSR are Via based. Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M is a Via as well. Lots of choices (well maybe not lots, but some). > uATX was among the requirements. But I would have resisted and not bought > the board, if I noticed the chipset was from ATI, too, knowing their FOSS > policies. I'm the only one running Linux, so I'm the one stuck, while the > others are fine running XP on the boxes I procured for them. I don't buy anything I don't know the exact specifications of for a computer. Buy it once and buy it right. I would rather have one good piece of hardware than 3 subpar pieces of hardware (none of which quite do the job). > I would be perfectly fine with running with constant maximum speed, I want > no changing clock speeds. May it be that the clock remains in "fast mode", > while the CPU clock is reduced? This would explain the performance lags with > kernel compiling!!! FreeBSD surely doesn't use frequency scaling etc. by > default and would be immune to this, I guess, and this is why I've had no > problems in *BSD! How can I switch to "max performance"? Maybe the BIOS has some settings for this. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
