On 1/5/07, Florian Reitmeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
there is a thinkpad ML .. your question would get there more answers..
At thinkwiki.org? I don't see a Debian ThinkPad list...
On Don, 04 Jän 2007, Owen Heisler wrote: > Video acceleration: > All I can find is ATI or Intel video chipsets... but I've heard say > that ATI (3D acceleration) is a pain to get working. thats true, but not only DRI is a show stopper, power management is also..
Uh, so maybe if ATI would work I would be better off to go with it, otherwise Intel.
> I've had some > trouble myself for older cards (mine was Radeon 7200, not supported at > all, although it did work at one point on FC5), but do some of the > cards work without problems? All cards up to ATI 9600 should work. But for cards from 9200->9600 the free driver don't support power management, so they really get hot...
Okay
> The Intel ones provide 3D acceleration, > but what is the difference in performance between a 128MB nvidia card > and an Intel integrated chipset that can share ~200MB of the regular > memory? If the Intel chipsets provide decent 3D acceleration, I may > as well go with it. Here's what seems to be available for video: > Integrated Intel 945GM the intel isn't the fastest, its about factor 10 in speed.. so for 3D games the intel card is suited but not for the highend ones.
Fine
> >From what I see on thinkwiki.org, none of the three ATI chipsets > listed here "just work", but the Intel ones do, without any > proprietary drivers. The two Intel ones are supported by the i810 > drivers. thats true.
Okay
> UltraBay Enhanced: > It seems that I can use a CD/DVD drive in this bay or a regular hard > drive. So I should be able to get a "Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay > Adapter" and a hard drive from Newegg and have a second hard drive > ready to go. The bay supports hot-swapping; will I be able to remove > the hard drive or CD/DVD drive with Debian running? yes. thats a kernel feature, so if you use a 2.6.19 or newer it will just work.
Okay Thanks for the information!
