On 11/9/06, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak <mjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lonni J Friedman wrote: > You're joking, right? You're declaring the intel X support to "work > very well, performance-wise" based on a game? Serious workstation > graphics users have significantly higher standards. No joke. For me it works very well, for what I want it to do, and for 95% of all users. I am not NASA or Los Alamos, however.
And that's fine, but claiming that they "work very well, performance-wise" without any details on how you came to that conclusion is misleading. They work fine for some low resource OGL games. Most people who care about OpenGL performance need alot more than that (even if they only care about games).
The average user who just wants decent performance (i.e., playable games) without upgrade nightmares (syncing kernels + modules, X crashes after distro upgrade, etc, etc) the Intel approach is painless and under-appreciated.
Again, that isn't always true. Can you play a recent Quake or Doom version with the intel driver?
The free ATI and nvidia drivers were awful, for me - visible performance problems. The closed nvidia driver works well, as long as you don't upgrade kernels.
They work well even if you do upgrade kernels as long as you understand & accept that you need to reinstall the driver. Its not like (re)installing the nvidia driver is a long, tedious or painful process. It takes about 2 minutes, and is a single, simple command. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
