[Arm-netbook] Good netbook based on Cortex-A9

[Roman Mamedov]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:28:36 +0100
Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:

> Not really. GPU is the only thing that hasn't got full open source 
> support. But if you are happy with the open source simple frame buffer 
> support for graphics, it's fine. As I said, the only thing that requires 
> any proprietary drivers is the accelerated GPU. And there are reasons to 
> use the simple frame buffer even if the nvidia drivers worked properly 
> (extra 62MB of RAM).

But can you watch videos with just the framebuffer driver? Let's say at least
SD ones at 720x576, in a simple codec like Divx/Xvid. And can you watch
YouTube?

AFAIK all of this is not going to work well with no Xv support, which you don't
get with fbdev.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Stallman had a printer,
with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/attachments/20120731/86818b7c/attachment.bin