On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:14:04AM +0100, barry wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:36, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:34:41PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > > Any thoughts on ATI Radeon Mobility 7000, 7500 and alike? > > Thank you all for your reactions. Summary: 7000 (Joris thinks he has > > one) works great, 7500 works fine and the 9000 works smoothly. Some need > > X4.3, some need the newest patches. Am I correct in understanding that > > support for ATI is just great? I don't think there are other mobile > > cards which are so well supported, are there? > > just to pitch in here, with 3d, one thing to be careful of, a lot of > laptops use 1400x1050 as their native res (like my thinkpad T30), and > only have 16mb of video ram, running this at 32bpp is too much to do dri > on! you can drop it down to 16bpp, or you can drop the res down a little > (undesirable, as it'll get scaled, or leave borders, as mentioned > elsewhere in this thread). Just thought I'd share this, as I discovered > it last weekend, after tearing my hair out for a while over it
I _think_ I would love to get my hands on a 1400x1050 display. Unfortunately, I can't afford it, :-/ Maybe I'll wait until they get a bit cheaper. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
