13 Feb
2012
13 Feb
'12
4:32 a.m.
On Sunday 12 February 2012 11:23:02 pm /dev/ammo42 wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:09:18 -0500
Kristopher John Gamrat <chaotickjg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm using an Intel card right now (same one since December 2009) with the FOSS Intel
driver. I've never seen any crash cause by the driver, all crashes thus far were
either a glitch in some program that overloaded my CPU, or from overheating (though this
usually leads to a kernel panic rather than an X.org crash).
Of course, I rarely run anything that requires 3D acceleration.
--
Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/
I hope it's not "required", but
sure would be a great feature if they
made it "optional". Not all graphics cards have good drivers that
enable the hardware accelerations, and not every Linux user will want
to use proprietary ATI/AMD or nVidia cards (I've not checked the
status of the nouveau driver (nor do I care since I'm not an nVidia
user), and I'm not aware of a similar project for ATI/AMD cards).
There is a
FOSS radeon driver for which some developers at AMD are paid
to work on it, and on my experience it works OK both for light 3D games
and KDE4 compositing (even better than AMD proprietary driver for the
latter). And compared to Intel drivers I've almost never seen it crash.