On Sat 03 Mar 2012 20:07:42 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > elephant dung. If you want to use a proprietary driver video card for
Not a question of want to, but have to. > god's sake go to nVidia, at least theirs work. ack^3 Luckily my lappie has an intel (but needs a broadstuff wlan driver - at least it works). As for ati/nvidia, some (many/most/few?) amd chipsets have integrated ati, so you can't avoid paying for it on your mobo. That gave me opportunity to try them out - I still stuck an nvidia card in. The ati oss driver (radeon?) is way better than nouveau. It's nothing to ring home about, but it's usable, for some definition of usable. Nouveau does handle more than 1280x1024 now, but if you want to get any work done, make sure you turn 3d off. The proprietory nvidia driver works well, though setting up dual-monitor is a PITA in the absence of sax2. I didn't try the closed ati. The i915 driver works ok in 3d, although glxgears cranks only at 60. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
