Re: intel extreme graphics chipset
Hmmm... Was there a reply in here somewhere???
On Tue 06 May 2008 09:13, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Subject: Re: intel extreme graphics chipset> From:
> > jo.shields@oerc.ox.ac.uk> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org> Date: Tue, 6
> > May 2008 14:16:10 +0100> > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 13:09 +0000, Michael
> > Fothergill wrote:> > Dear folks,> > > > I noticed from reading an article
> > by Eric S Raymond
> > (http://catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.ht
> >ml) that according to him Intel released the source code for its own
> > graphics processors to the Linux community.> > > > He therefore
> > encouraged Linux users to buy the intel hardware to encourage the company
> > to keep doing this.> > > > I tried googling to see how easy it was for an
> > intel PC with e.g. the extreme graphics chipset stuck in it to have
> > Debian installed on it and also how easy the OS recognised the graphics
> > chip relative to e.g. putting an Nvidia or ATI graphics card into the
> > machine.> > Trivial.Sounds encouraging if I can figure out how to buy a
> > machine with the graphics chipset in it.> > > Someone told me that now
> > ATI have released the source for their graphics cards to the linux
> > community.> > > > Is this true?> > There's been a large code dump.
> > Nothing useful has come of it yet.> > > What would suit me is being able
> > to buy a 64 bit PC with a graphics chip in it which Linux (Debian)
> > recognizes very easily.> > Plenty of such machines available. Laptops or
> > desktops or DIY.> > > I don't mind if the graphics 3D acceleration is not
> > quite as fast as say an Nvidia card if the installation is reliable and
> > predictable.> > ATI under Linux is about 3x slower than NVidia under
> > Linux. ATI with> open-source drivers is about 3x slower than that. Does
> > "9x slower, give> or take" come under the heading of "not quite as
> > fast"?That would fine for me. > > Talking to intel about this was hard
> > work. It wanted me to talk to PC resellers who thought I wanted to buy
> > something unusual that they didn't sell very often.> >> >> > It was a bit
> > like trying to buy a washing machine from a hardware store in Soviet
> > Russia in the 1960s.> > Or perhaps more like trying to buy washing
> > machine belts from their> corporate HQ, rather than a consumer machine
> > from a consumer company?The corporate HQ's web page that was supposed to
> > help me find a reseller didn't work using Iceweasel. I had to phone
> > Intel again and get them to run it for me (I guess using Windows Internet
> > Explorer browser) and then give me the phone number of an authorised
> > Intel PC reseller.Contacting the reseller took quite a bit of effort.
> > When I did get through to a sales rep, they didn't know very much about
> > the extreme graphics chipset. They thought it was something unusual that
> > would need to be a custom built PC that they would email me about at some
> > point.At that point I thought that I would have a much better chance of
> > finding someone who could sell me such a machine by posting a query about
> > it on this site than talking to Intel, googling PC resellers or using a
> > oujii board etc.> > > Has anyone heard of someone who bought or built
> > such an Intel based PC and made it work?> > Lots. Try
> > http://system76.com/index.php?cPath=27 or>
> > https://secure.dnuk.com/store/workstations.php#core2duo as first-effort>
> > links.Thank you very much for your help here.MF> -- >
> > ______________________________> / Jo Shields <jms@osc.ox.ac.uk> \> |
> > Systems Manager, |> \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre />
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