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Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com)

Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 3, 2007 7:23 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com) by nim-nim
Parent article: Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com)

The point isn't how fast the graphics chip is; servers won't be doing graphics operations. What counts is whether its load on the memory bus slows down CPU operations. Just refreshing the display does that. A properly configured server would have the display driver stop refreshing the display after a period of mouse/keyboard inactivity. Does anybody do that?


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Free ATI drivers for Christmas? (Linux.com)

Posted Sep 3, 2007 7:27 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

The intel driver has all sort of low-power tricks because it also targets laptop users

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