Am 12.01.2011 04:02, schrieb Jean Crystof:
Walter Bright Wrote:
My mobo is an ASUS M2A-VM. No graphics cards, or any other cards plugged into
it. It's hardly weird or wacky or old (it was new at the time I bought it to
install Ubuntu).
ASUS M2A-VM has 690G chipset. Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_690_chipset_series#690G
"AMD recently dropped support for Windows and Linux drivers made for Radeon X1250
graphics integrated in the 690G chipset, stating that users should use the open-source
graphics drivers instead. The latest available AMD Linux driver for the 690G chipset is
fglrx version 9.3, so all newer Linux distributions using this chipset are
unsupported."
I guess a recent version of the free drivers (as delivered with recent
Ubuntu releases) still is much better than the one in Walters >2 Years
old Ubuntu.
Sure, game performance may not be great, but I guess normal working
(even in 1920x1200) and watching youtube videos works.
Fast forward to this day:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_driver_q111&num=2
Benchmark page says: the only available driver for your graphics gives only
about 10-20% of the real performance. Why? ATI sucks on Linux. Don't buy ATI.
Buy Nvidia instead:
No it doesn't. The X1250 uses the same driver as the X1950 which is much
more mature and also faster than the free driver for the Radeon HD ***
cards (for which a proprietary Catalyst driver is still provided).
http://geizhals.at/a466974.html
This is 3rd latest Nvidia GPU generation. How long support lasts? Ubuntu 10.10
still supports all Geforce 2+ which is 10 years old. I foretell Ubuntu 19.04 is
last one supporting this. Use Nvidia and your problems are gone.
I agree that a recent nvidia card may improve things even further.
Cheers,
- Daniel
