Nothing is bad about Gallium, but it will not be ready for a looong time I think.
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Maybe there'll be an AGP HD4670 by that time!
Originally posted by Svartalf View PostSomething like another 6 months or so, from my gauge of things right now.
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AGP is dying, unfortunately...
As for R300 support, Gallium3D will benefit the R300 cards as well. As for the AGP story, you might want to consider saving up for a more modern machine. Some of the titles, etc. for gaming will chew up that machine and spit the seeds out.
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Originally posted by Svartalf View PostSomething like another 6 months or so, from my gauge of things right now. It's a bit long, yes. But, if it's within that timeframe, it'll be worth the actual wait.
Well I need a graphic card for an older machine, so I think about putting my 2600Pro in the older machine and buying a 4670. That's the choice between two bad (or not good...) supported cards... (from an open source driver point of view)
I really hope that the Catalyst 8.10 will get decent 4670 support and hopefully less bugs! (tearing, 2D performance)
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AGP isn't dead yet.
Originally posted by Svartalf View PostAGP is dying, unfortunately...
As for the AGP story, you might want to consider saving up for a more modern machine. Some of the titles, etc. for gaming will chew up that machine and spit the seeds out.
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Originally posted by Svartalf View PostAGP is dying, unfortunately...
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AGP is the least of my problems.
Originally posted by glisse View PostAGP dying is a good things, AGP is a painful technology with many buggy hw and it's a source of many problems we have.
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Yet open source or AMD is still not there for older cards
I am in the same position as I was two years ago. At that time I bought the gigabyte mobo which touted the strengths of the 690G (x1250) IGP yet lefdt nothing but ash in my mouth as the *nix drivers were no where near the features of it's windows driver counterparts.
Yes, AMD/ATI has made great strides in trying to obtain parity and will continue to do so. However, the world and card development has not stood still.
So back to my purchase. Why would anyone buy and IGP unless it's for an appliance, mainly an HTPC. And that is exactly why I bought it. The US is finally moving forward with digital TV, yet we are still trapped by PCI bus architecture and analog TV video cards for *nix platforms.
Which brings me to the right here and now. I see the new 780GX with full [onboard] HD video and Dolby sound. Yet, if I buy the gigabyte mobo this week, I will use even less of features than I am right now with 690G, right?
As much as I hate to do it, I will be stuck with buying an WinXP-64 OS and building an HTPC interface from either MS Multimedia console (MMC) or buying a SageTV build just to use the basic elements of this new IGP.
I know I am asking a lot from where just a few years ago I would have had nothing at all, but still, this is a company in competition for as many consumers as possible. It still boggles my mind that the company touts more and more hardware releases with just a fraction of its capabilities being available -- and exepcting the buyers to be happy with it.
You want to beat Intel? You want to bury nVidia? Then spend the money and the resources here and now and have fully compliant, full featured *nix drivers out by Christmas. If they cannot do it alone, then ask Canonical for some cash and people.
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Originally posted by The_Monkey_King View PostIf they cannot do it alone, then ask Canonical for some cash and people.
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