I'm
confused. Is Intel video desirable in any way?
Intel video is desirable if one of
this conditions is met:
a) you need a decent (PCIe) system and need open source drivers
b) you only need "light" 3D acceleration (eg. OpenGL screen savers, glX,
quake3, etc) and want to save some
money.
c) you dont mind that drivers are proprietary, but are still annoyed that
they wont compile or link correctly into kernel 2.blarg-18-git3 and have no way to resolve
the issue since the module is binary.
ive got both an ATI and a Nvidia. and its always something. either the Xorg version is
newer than the one they built their binary module for. or a symbol changed in the kernel
and thus depmod breaks. or your version of DRI doesnt like their version of DRM. its a
neverending dance with those binary modules, even before you factor in the
'freeness' of them...
now that intel is again the leader in price/performance _and_ open drivers, theres no
reason to suffer with AMD solutions..
this goes not just for video, but for everything else. AMD mobos are more likely to be
some Nvidia thing where even the ethernet driver was reverse-engineered, or the wireless
card isnt Intel so it requires NDISWrapper, etc...
