On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:27:25PM CET, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com> said: > I can confirm that on Linux 3D support by modern versions of X FLOSS > drivers is very good, especially for ATI cards the proprietary driver > isn't maintained for not really old cards on Linux. > > Even nouveau for NVIDI graphics today is ok in most of the cases. > > I suspect that for gamers proprietary drivers are still important, I > don't know. > For hard real-time audio users it's always good to compare current > proprietary and FLOSS drivers, just to ensure that the driver has the > less negative impact as possible to hard real-time audio abilities. > Usually FLOSS drivers should be a good choice for hard real-time audio > too, but I wouldn't put my shirt on that.
Support for new cards may also require proprietary drivers. Eg. for my Lenovo T530, nouveau from wheezy or sid does not work. I was told I had to wait for 3.6 kernel and a recompiled Xorg. So I use nvidia proprietary until I can switch to nouveau (which works better when you've got a laptop with an optional external screen) -- 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/20130114121350.ga11...@rail.eu.org
