I want to buy a new computer and start putting together Linux From Scratch on it - mostly for fun. Since I want to be a purist about it, I'm really trying to avoid anything that needs binaries.
So at the moment I'm looking at a computer with a Radeon HD3450 - how much broken stuff would I have to put up with using only xf86-video-radeon & -radeonhd? How well do software fallbacks work? And probably most importantly, is it reasonable to assume that there will be a well-rounded open source driver for it in the next three years?
I've been trying to guess based on the feature matrices and such, but I can't figure out what won't work, compared to the intel integrated chips I've always used.
- Would there be screen resolution problems?
- Would OpenGL not work, or just work slowly in software?
- Would Compiz die?
- Are all the docs. AMD can relase for it released?
- I get the impression that suddenly movies would become choppy, and there may be no way to fix it because of hardware level DRM?
So at the moment I'm looking at a computer with a Radeon HD3450 - how much broken stuff would I have to put up with using only xf86-video-radeon & -radeonhd? How well do software fallbacks work? And probably most importantly, is it reasonable to assume that there will be a well-rounded open source driver for it in the next three years?
I've been trying to guess based on the feature matrices and such, but I can't figure out what won't work, compared to the intel integrated chips I've always used.
- Would there be screen resolution problems?
- Would OpenGL not work, or just work slowly in software?
- Would Compiz die?
- Are all the docs. AMD can relase for it released?
- I get the impression that suddenly movies would become choppy, and there may be no way to fix it because of hardware level DRM?
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