JJZolx;402152 Wrote: > > A much bigger problem is locating working drivers. I set up a new > desktop PC about a week ago and decided to try Ubuntu 8.10. The > install went smoothly, certainly no more problems than any Windows > install I've ever done. But it didn't install a video driver for the > onboard video and I didn't want to put up with the slow, generic > driver. The motherboard has an AMD 780G chipset, which embeds the ATI > Radeon 3200. Fiddled forever with installing the drivers, finally got > it to stick, then got horizontal lines and tearing in the video, no > matter what I tried. Did searches around the Internet looking for > solutions and found that the general consensus is that ATI video > drivers for Linux are garbage. > > In the end I wiped it clean and installed XP Pro.
I can add some to this bad driver experience also. Ubuntu 8.10 pretty much worked out of the box. I use an Atom board with onboard Intel graphics. Even after tweaking some things it is unbelievable slow in some things. Reading on the net shows just how confusing this driver developement goes. Seems like the intel graphics was pretty fast in 7.x Ubuntu days as it used XAA as accelarationj method. Since linux somehow needed other functions in the graphics stack they switched to EXA accelaration. This EXA slowed many functions and using the old proven XAA method leads to errors cause Kernel, Xorg, GEM and other things changed. Instead of having this fixed in a way the linux devs just started another method called UXA. UXA still is buggy as hell and needs many things patched to be used. Me as newbie isn't able to do that. So for me using linux makes me feel like an alpha tester sometimes. -- Wombat Transporter -> Avantgarde based monoblocks -> self-made speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wombat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60817 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
