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Re: Hardware-Acceleration
by Brandybuck on Saturday 12/May/2007, @11:14

Hardware acceleration is great. But just remember that most of it comes at the expense of having to use a proprietary video driver.

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Re: Hardware-Acceleration
by Jakob Petsovits on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @02:11

Actually, no. The needs for applications like Krita or Kalzium, or for compositing window managers like Compiz/Beryl are modest enough that any lower-scale graphics accelerator will do perfectly fine as well, and still provide enormous speed improvements.

I am writing this from my laptop with integrated Intel graphics, which does not need proprietary graphics drivers at all, and I can play all those Linux games with sufficient frame rates, my Beryl (when it's activated at all) feels smooth and handsome, and accelerated apps are snappy as one could imagine.

It's just a question of selecting and supporting the right hardware from the right vendor. I actually paid more for this configuration than I would have for an ATI or nVidia card, but it's well worth it.

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