On 07/25/2010 06:00 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility > Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect > Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable? > > Thanks in advance! > Florian Philipp > Open Source (x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati) and Close Source drivers (x11-drivers/ati-drivers) do both work with suspend2ram.
From this mailing list (my post) 06/24/2010 10:22 AM +0200, Subject "Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730" in regards to ATI only: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATI: 3D is very good - a must for gaming, 2D is SLOW! (thou they did something about that with 10.6 - experience differs for users - its said that window management is fast now, but video still has tearing effect [also my exp.]) Latest driver (10.6) work with xorg-server-1.7.x only and kernel module has problems with >=2.6.34 (exp. differ). Xorg: 3D is basic and very slow but works (the newer the driver/server the better, development is VERY fast), 2D is a dream (very fast, no tearing with video)! Driver is released with Xorg - so work always with newest Xorg, kernel module is in-kernel - work always with newest kernel :) Driver supports both KMS and user space MS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- So... for buying... if u need only 2D (and basic 3d) -> intel. If you want to play games: nvidia or ati/amd... The OSS-driver 4 ATI is MUCH more mature and ATI/AMD gives out documentation and also develops - work is going very well, but will take time for 3d to catch up. Still for OSS -> ATI. The closed source drivers of nvidia are much better (very fast match new kernels and Xorg releases) than the closed source drivers of ati (they are like a year behind kernel/xorg releases)! So if you plan on being always on closed source drivers (because you game often or use 3D-software for modeling or so) then x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers works better. The nvidia driver also offers hardware accelerated HD-video playback (1080p H264 -> only 10% CPU, rest in GPU). Bye, Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887
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