On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: > >> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card >> AMD Radeon 6470M. > > Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum thread (post #11) where a user > talks about the status of that card in his distribution: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=467b83bbff9b48f6a32dc2c2d06bf452&t=1699832&page=2 > >> I would like to know how good are the open-source drivers for the AMD >> Radeon Cards. I read that AMD gives a better support for the open >> -source drivers than Nvidia. Is that right? > > Generally speaking, I'd say that ATI VGA cards/chipsets supported by > radeon driver (FOSS) use to behave quite well, the main problem here > is to have a card that is fully supported, you may want to check > Xorg's driver status page. > > In regards to the second question, yes, "radeon" driver is one of the > most tested (it's older), most advanced and with better overall > performance of the main FLOSS VGA 3D drivers, which mainly includes > "intel" (Intel cards) and "nouveau" (nvidia cards). > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón
Hi Camaleón, Thanks for your answer. That post is from April and things may have changed but it seems that it is not a great idea to buy a laptop with a switchable graphics card, they are not well supported right now. I was debating between the Vaio S and the Macbook pro. The Macbook uses an integrated intel card which should work better with Linux. Has anybody a good experience with switchable graphic cards? Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cak00fol_gsu1w6gdqf7w7rrf7viw6gjhzupgzfyjhzsx9o-...@mail.gmail.com
