On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:50:21 -0500 Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 02/24/2012 09:22 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > >> Curt Howland<howl...@priss.com> wrote: > >> > >> ... > >> > >>> It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > >>> perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay > >>> purely open-source. > >> That's what everyone says, but it's not as true as it might be. Squeeze > >> is shipping X stuff / drivers that cause GPU crashes on my (2007 era) > >> Thinkpad T61 with Intel GM965 graphics: > >> > >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44478 > > > /snip/ > > Just a little philosophy here: You may have groked, by now, that there > is a fanatical fringe of Linux users > who would not use anything but Open Source software that is not > encumbered by a manufacturer's name, > like NVidia, or Mozilla, etc. You may or may not be in that group, but > if you are not, then don't let those > who are beat you down. Use what works! (Just as some of us use Windows > when it's reasonable to do so. > For instance, if you have Photoshop on your Win machine, it would be > plain stupid to force yourself into > using Gimp, and if you have AutoCad, why fool with lesser programs that > may be free/open-source, but > not only don't have all the capability, but would require you to learn a > new paradigm to use them. And I > wait in hope for Corel to bring WordPerfect back to Linux, but for > serious writing, I will cheerfully go to > Windows, where it lives. Not free. Not open-source. Works!) > > /rant off Understood - I'm not in the fanatical fringe (although I'm somewhat sympathetic to them), but I was just disappointed to find that the system I purchased, with its vaunted Intel graphics, was crashing under Debian. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120225200236.ee98f9d0.cele...@gmail.com