30 Nov
2003
30 Nov
'03
4:50 p.m.
Hi,
Sunday 30 November 2003 19.00 skrev Christian Schoenebeck:
Es geschah am Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 11:42 als
vincent.touquet(a)pandora.be schrieb:
I think this an urban myth, the Nvidia drivers may be proprietary but they are
well functioning. Actually there are opensource drivers for nvidia chips, it
is true though that only the proprietary drivers support OpenGL.
The situation isn't much different with ATI, tbough there may be open source
OpenGL enabled drivers, last time I checked it was a real pain to get them to
work and they don't support all cards.
(For the record I'm running ATI cards(7500 and 9200) these days but I don't
have any problems using nvidia cards. None of which are on laptops though...)
I know some applications are not ported yet to
ppc and suffer from
x86-isms, but that should be fixable I guess :)
It's not only orphaned asm lines but also endian dependent code that makes
a lot of trouble on non intel machines. It seems that lot of programs
suffer this problem, but there is one project that takes very care about
endian correctness, what was it name? Hmmm... ah, yeah it's called
LinuxSampler I think. ;P
Anyway, whatever brand or type you'll choose, I recommend you that it has
an ATI graphics chip, so you don't have to install extra proprietary opengl
drivers for X like it's the case with Nvidia, it should have no shared
memory and a good display; I wouldn't take one with a resolution lower than
1280x1024, I chose one with a resolution of 1600x1200. Regarding the sound
chip they're all more or less the same (anybody with another experience?).
This is interesting, I guess you are running the chips with ac97 compatibility
drivers?
I've always thought ac97 cards where badly functioning, perhaps times have
changed. Good to know.
Usually and surprisingly (at least to me) sufficient
for low latency
output, but for quality you will buy an external sound device. And instead
of having the best, fastest, overkilling CPU I would better spend that
money in RAM (at least 512MB, better more).
Fan noise, which is very much releated to the CPU power is also something to
think about. Some laptops are noisy to the point that they are unusable for
audio-work (or just about anything).
/Robert
Best regards
Christian