Originally posted by Kano
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That has nothing to do with games. Certainly you can only benchmark games that run with oss drivers, so the collection is very limited. I would NEVER buy a card which is not lowend (in a system without onboard gfx) for oss drivers. That's definitely the most stupid thing you can spend your money for. If you buy something fast, then you PAY just for running oss drivers without proper power management.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostThat has nothing to do with games. Certainly you can only benchmark games that run with oss drivers, so the collection is very limited. I would NEVER buy a card which is not lowend (in a system without onboard gfx) for oss drivers. That's definitely the most stupid thing you can spend your money for. If you buy something fast, then you PAY just for running oss drivers without proper power management.
Or is Debian suddenly for Nvidia now?
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kano, you're missing a use-case here:
- dual-booting to windows for games
- running oss drivers on linux for work and a bit of 3d-compositing
in that scenario, a high-end 4xxx is probably the best choice at the moment.
also, what crazycheese said.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostThat usage case is stupid without powermanagement. Did you see it mainline yet?
Btw. whats the powerconsumption with binary driver in your example?
my laptop is a turion x2/ radeon x1200
in winxp with the latest supported catalyst 75ish minutes of battery life
in kubuntu 10.04 latest foss driver and 2.6.34 kernel 58ish minuntes of battery life
i tested it, seen the time when i turned on and the time when the laptop go off, so ok is not exactly a bench but is good for me to notice an improvement.
beside the battery life i can say for sure that my laptop is way cooler, before the latest patch in 2.6.34 my legs ended burning with the heat, now is always wormish and not too much hotter than winxp.
so is not like you try to make it look, that the foss driver is a huge power beast these days, cuz it has certainly improved in both of my systems. ok is not perfect yet, but the current state is in a very acceptable state, lol most ppl can live with only 15m less in battery life.
i read too that 2.6.35 bring another set of changes to imporve further the power management in the foss driver.
now if you have an utterly hot and short life battery system using the foss driver with everything updated, should be interesting to make a post with some debug info cuz maybe your system is not accepting some of the changes for powermanagement.
if you have an evergreen card, well in that case maybe you are rigth cuz the support for evergreen is still far behind compared to previous generations and im not really sure that the dynpm code recognize the evergreen serie yet (would be worth to investigate though )
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