<div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/31 Gordan Bobic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordan@bobich.net" target="_blank">gordan@bobich.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 07/31/2012 12:34 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote:<br>
> I went back to the article I read (in Russian, [1] ). Basically the author<br>
> very colorfully described his disgust as he had to deal with the outdated,<br>
> half-broken, proprietary, Android-targetted nVidia "software stack" (nvrm_gpu,<br>
> nvrm_daemon etc), to even have the most basic hardware working, like<br>
> backlight brightness, audio and suspend.<br>
><br>
> Okay, the article is from October 2010, maybe some things have improved since<br>
> then.<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="http://habrahabr.ru/post/107304/" target="_blank">http://habrahabr.ru/post/107304/</a><br>
<br>
</div>Things have changed _massively_ since then. All the nvrm stuff is long,<br>
long gone and forgotten by everyone who actualy has an AC100. Those were<br>
dark times. ;)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> I think it's important to strike a reasonable balance between idealism<br>
>> and pragmatism. Otherwise your only option is to get a Yeeloong.<br>
><br>
> I have an impression that openness-wise the AC100 is especially bad, worse than<br>
> e.g. Efika MX, certainly worse than an A10-based netbook, and MUCH worse than<br>
> even a random x86 netbook.<br>
<br>
</div>Not really. GPU is the only thing that hasn't got full open source<br>
support. But if you are happy with the open source simple frame buffer<br>
support for graphics, it's fine. As I said, the only thing that requires<br>
any proprietary drivers is the accelerated GPU. And there are reasons to<br>
use the simple frame buffer even if the nvidia drivers worked properly<br>
(extra 62MB of RAM).<br>
<br>
Seriously, AC100s are pretty damned _awesome_. Nothing else comes close,<br>
especially if you are prepared to take a screwdriver into your hands and<br>
do the upgrades I wrote up (screen, cooling for 40% overclock, internal<br>
SSD).<br></blockquote><div>Only problem is the 512MB of RAM :(</div><div>But I agree, if you can live with it, the ac100 is really good, and still good enough without your mods.</div></div>