On Monday, 11 בOctober 2010 18:15:54 geoffrey mendelson wrote: > The Intel onboard graphics chipsets are perfectly fine for normal use. > They seem to be much better than the other onboard graphics chipsets > of 10 years ago. They are not really accelerated graphics devices, if > you want something to display windows on your screen, with stationary > graphics or text, play videos (using the CPU to decode the compressed > video) etc, they are fine.
Agreed. Just a warning -- beware of GMA-500, GMA-600. They are usually present on netbooks and since Intel made the mistake of buying the design from 3'rd party -- these drivers are proprietary, horrible, buggy etc. All other Intel graphic chipsets (X3xxx, X4xxx) are best choice for Linux desktop use -- FOSS drivers, updated regularly upstream, etc. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 [email protected] http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron ... Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
