On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > Gilbert Sanford [gilbertz....@gmail.com] wrote: >> Though the following has nothing to do with AMD GPU's, it may be of interest. >> I will share my config with you with one caveat: I'm from Alabama, and we all >> know what that means ... >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139656417532670&w=2 > > If you're lucky someone will have Nouveau ported before too long. > > I've noticed that Nvidia laptops tend to get really damn hot. I stick > with integrated video because it is always cooler than a discrete video > chip. > > I wonder, why not just buy something with integrated, supported Intel or ATI > video to begin with? (And that's exactly what this guy wants, as well.) > > -- > "If you see fraud and don't shout fraud, you are a fraud" -- Nassim Taleb
Chris, you're absolutely right. I now know more than I did a year ago, and my next purchase, when this one dies, will be a box with integrated Intel only. Intel with integrated video is the only way to fly for those of us who just live in a tmux'ed xterm with Firefox or Chrome on the side (genuine, one-man, in-house web devel from Alabama -- man, that's funny!! You guys think OpenSSL is horrifying . . . pray that you never have to look at the 9500 lines I wrote for our multiple warehouse inventory system for the Parts Department, hahaha :) it's worked for over 2 years!) Occasionally, I break out the GIMP, but, again, integrated Intel is more than up to the task. No doubt, I got lucky with what I'm doing, to the point that Nouveau isn't necessary, nor do I care to run anything else to get it. (I keep "Winders" and Linuxmint on the box to ensure I can handle whatever comes my way in the business world.) You may have noticed "acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature is 107 degC" in my dmesg . . . it always says that, and that's probably where it was before I disabled processor cores. I don't think the GPU is doing anything, but the processor was definitely cooking. My unit is very comfortable now, and OpenBSD simply flies. This is a very fast box compared to what I've had in the past. Perhaps the poster from Poland can acquire the right kind of hardware. Sorry I top-posted earlier. All you guys are great!! Pure genius hard at work. Gilbert
