On 5/7/06, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wish I could rip the ATI card out of this otherwise FANTASTIC laptop, and throw in an nvidia... but that can't happen.
Well, as someone who recently changed from an ATI to an NVidia laptop, my view is that, while things _are_ better on this side of the fence (better performance, Composite support (now even with OpenGL applications!!), and so on), they are still far from perfect where laptops are concerned. NVidia fully supports suspend-to-ram....and my laptop will suspend and resume to ram reliably...most of the time. The problem is that not all drivers really work with suspend-to-ram. For example alsa loses the BIOS-set pin configuration, causing the headphone pin to no longer function (sound comes from speakers always). Also I have some instability in timetracking with VMWare virtual machines after resuming. Now none of the above is NVidia's fault, and using suspend-to-disk is the usual way of dealing with these issues, since the BIOS is started and reconfigures everything they way it is supposed to be. NVidia has just started to support suspend-to-disk, but my system will still fail to resume at least 50% of the time. The biggest complaint I have (and that I see frequently on the nvnews forums) with NVidia's drivers is the time between releases. They used to do a release about every two months, but lately that has slid to 4 or even 5 months sometimes!! Which means I will probably have no usable suspend-to-disk until September or October. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
