[plug] Frustration

[Brad Campbell]

On 07/09/12 15:19, Leon Wright wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Shanon Loughton <autobot at iinet.net.au
> <mailto:autobot at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     That would be because of Intel's open source graphics efforts for
>     their Intel Mesa Gallium-based Driver.  The effort is awesome, world
>     leading and really shaking things up in Nvidia camps.  No idea where
>     AMD is...
>
>
> Apart from the initial hiccup when Ubuntu first introduced the Intel's
> OSS driver, Intel Graphics have always resided in the "Just Works" camp.

Unless they are on a board that has a secondary card, in which case you 
are SOL trying to figure out how to switch between them or make them 
work together.

I think they saw the writing on the wall when AMD was posturing towards 
buying ATI and decided they had to get with the program with a useful 
igp before they were run over.

Intel are no opensource angels however, they just throw the resources 
where they know they need them. Plenty of people working on the wireless 
and graphics drivers.

Try finding any information to write a useful driver for any of their 
"thunderbolt" hardware. Not so much as a datasheet.

The new AMD fusion stuff is great on a cost vs performance basis. AMD 
just need to get their heads out of their backsides and provide some 
documentation and support for their drivers.