On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:39, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 07:34, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > Maybe (just maybe) I'll be buying a new laptop. My current laptop has a > > trident cyberblade i7 card, which sucks under linux. I have flickerings > > and _no_ 3D acceleration at all. My thoughts are: new hardware, good > > (perfect?) compatibility with Debian, ;-) > > > > Any thoughts on ATI Radeon Mobility 7000, 7500 and alike? You can't > > download ATI Mobility drivers for linux from their site, :-(. How about > > the basic XFree 4.2/4.3 drivers? DRI? I understand the 'normal' Radeons > > are supported quite well, but the Mobility ones? I _really_ want a > > laptop which doesn't turn out to be incompatible with Debian. And since > > I'll be paying a _lot_ of money, I want DRI compatibility as well. > > > I have an IBM A31 with a Mobility 7500 chip; currently running testing. > It works well with X4.2; but without 3D hardware acceleration. From > what I am told, if you use X4.3, hardware acceleration should work.
Don't know about the radeon, but look under the gatos project: http://gatos.sourceforge.net/overview.php They have accelerated ati drivers for x 4.2 and 4.3 I use their driver for rage mobility and it works great, at list for 2D acceleration, don't have anything to test the 3d acceleration though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
