Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-28 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 28. 11. 2010 02:32:11 je Ivan Marin napisal(a): Hi all, I'm planning to get a laptop soon and gonna run Debian on it. I'm gonna need a few things: - HDMI/DVI output support, as I usually use a 22' Dell external monitor; - A good processor, at least i5/i7 Lynnfield/Arrandale; - A good

Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-28 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:34:55 +0100 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Just a thought I've just recently read somewhere that GNU/Linux performance of some of the major video cards lags behind their Windows performance by as much as 40-50%, especially in 3D and OpenGL performance, and that

Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 28 nov 10, 11:34:55, Klistvud wrote: Just a thought I've just recently read somewhere that GNU/Linux performance of some of the major video cards lags behind their Windows performance by as much as 40-50%, especially in 3D and OpenGL performance, and that at higher resolutions the

Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-28 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi Ivan, I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series VGA controller. It's binary drivers are miserably useless. (Even scrolling in Firefox lags.) Hence, I couldn't find motivation to test its 3D capabilities. Its open source drivers bundled with some recent kernel version are way much better. (At

Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-28 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:32:11 -0600, Ivan Marin wrote: I'm planning to get a laptop soon and gonna run Debian on it. I'm gonna need a few things: - HDMI/DVI output support, as I usually use a 22' Dell external monitor; - A good processor, at least i5/i7 Lynnfield/Arrandale; - A good video

Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 28 nov 10, 13:41:52, Volkan YAZICI wrote: Hi Ivan, I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series VGA controller. It's binary drivers are miserably useless. (Even scrolling in Firefox lags.) Hence, While I don't like the ATI binary drivers this is not normal. Do you have

Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-28 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Lu, 29 nov 10, 02:13:08, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Du, 28 nov 10, 13:41:52, Volkan YAZICI wrote: I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series VGA

Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-27 Thread Ivan Marin
Hi all, I'm planning to get a laptop soon and gonna run Debian on it. I'm gonna need a few things: - HDMI/DVI output support, as I usually use a 22' Dell external monitor; - A good processor, at least i5/i7 Lynnfield/Arrandale; - A good video card, with good 3D support on Debian - I develop a

Re: Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-27 Thread Brad Alexander
I had an ATI card in my work desktop on my prior job. I left that job last week, so I can't access the model information. When I first got the box (a c2d HP, as I recall), I was able to run the fglrx driver and get full 3D. I prefer to run kde 4.x under Compiz, which I was able to do on this box.