On 4/24/07, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think one of my boxes uses an ATI R300. (Can't check right now.) I run the free radeon driver on it to good effect.
Our current boxes from HP are R300 based as well, and you are correct, they generally work fine with the free driver. Unless you want / need to do even the lightest 3D. I'm talking rendering OOo presentation effects and goofy screensavers, not heavy-lifting by any stretch. In those situations (which are common amongst the people who will be using these machines) the free driver doesn't allow sufficient performance for those to work well. The proprietary driver on the other hand works OK for 3D, but does terribly with video overlays and the like. For example, running and RDP session or VMware using the closed driver resulted in really nasty visual artifacts and generally dodgy results. So either way there are relatively common "corner cases" where one or the other falls down and I'm not able to utilize 100% of the functionality of the hardware, which is a bummer. With Nvidia or Intel hardware, I can achieve that 100% functionality with the onboard chipset. -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman-
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