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you mean, intel, the manufacturer of wifi drivers that only works with binary blobs? or the manufacturer of GPUs that work wonders with linux because they have

• hollerith 14y ago
  >GPUs that work wonders with linux because they have no feature at all? That's a little unfair. They might suck at 3-d immersive games, but some of us do not want to play 3-d immersive games, and the GPU integrated into my Core i5 does everything I want it to except perhaps smoothly play 1080p video. (720p playback OTOH works flawlessly.)
  • mattst88 14y ago
    Your Core i5 should have graphics with VA-API (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API) support, which shouldn't have any trouble playing 1080p video.
    • hollerith 14y ago
      I tested your assertion (on a clip with 48 frames/sec) and I could not get the video to skip. So, strike the part of my previous comment about 1080p video. (Maybe Adobe's notorious Flash Player for OS X was the cause of the skipping I observed in the past. If you give VLC a .flv file, does VLC use Adobe's player to play it?)
      • jdpage 14y ago
        It does not. FLV is just a container format for MPEG-4 video (and possibly other codecs).
        • willvarfar 14y ago
          Kind of true, but I can still believe flash itself is the slow-down (from someone who once ported flash to a smartphone and saw the code and all)
          • jdpage 14y ago
            Indeed, we are in agreement -- because FLV is a simple container format, it indicates that VLC is not using Flash Player, and is in fact notably more efficient in decoding.
• mattst88 14y ago
  Intel was the first vendor to have open source OpenGL 3.0 drivers, and have really driven Mesa development for the last few years. That hardly feels like "no features at all." Disclaimer: I'm starting at Intel on the open source graphics team next month.
  • gcb 14y ago
    Didn't know about first opengl3 drivers.
  • fsniper 14y ago
    So as a professional opinion, what do you think of intel creating unusable, proprietary software drivers for third party licensed chips?
    • mattst88 14y ago
      I don't really know anything about those drivers (they're not handled by the open source team). No one on the open source team likes them either. It has seemed to me that using these PVR chips has always been a stop gap measure for Atom until the in-house graphics were ready (where ready means sufficiently energy efficient or something). This seems to be confirmed by the fact that ValleyView graphics are going to be coming to Atom.
• buster 14y ago
  No, i have never had problems with Intel hardware in my laptop. The graphics drivers are extremely stable and have very few glitches. I can remember fglrx crashing my desktop or having graphics glitches oftne enough, but i can't remember one time where the intel driver wasn't working. Can't remember having problems with Wifi either. Also this article is full of praise for the WLAN experience: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_6205_wlan&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel... If all linux drivers would work as flawlessly as the intel graphics drivers, that would be awesome :) (Of course it would be great if the Wifi driver would be completely open source as well!)
• raverbashing 14y ago
  >> the manufacturer of wifi drivers that only works with binary blobs? All wifi cards nowadays depend on a binary blob. Some of them depend on that being uploaded by the computer. >> i wouldn't count them so happily as linux supporters. Their support is certainly above average and they usually go the extra mile in supporting (except in PowerVR case of course) Other vendors are much worse