> 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 a Radeon Mobility M7 LW (I think it's the 7000), and after a few hacks (newest driver from dri.sf.net, exporting MESA_NO_3DNOW=1) everything works like a charm greetings, -- Joris
