Recommended laptop for FC5, was: glxgears

Mike A. Harris mharris at mharris.ca
Wed Mar 1 23:17:08 UTC 2006


Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>>>So if I was buying a new laptop sometime soonish, what chipset is best
>>>for all this new accelerated X stuff?
>>>
>>>ati seems to not care about Linux, and I've heard bad things about
>>>nvidia. I don't do games, so 3D isn't that important.
>>
>>go intel.. intel video is well supported and open
>>(David will now say that it uses the bios to do mode setting and that it
>>thus isn't fully open, but i'll ignore him for now :)
> 
> My own experience is that  Intel should be avoided -  I have to run
> magic little programs setting magic little parameters to get  anything
> beyond  plain VESA in low colors.
> 
> I bought Intel that time because I thought it was open, but low
> performing. Only the latter is true, however, and native ATI/Nvidia
> work better out of the box.
> 
> 3D is missing with the bundled drivers, of course, but if you wanted
> 3D, you wouldn't go Intel anyway.
> 
> My recommendation would be NVidia - best out of the box 2D, and if you
> want, the best 3D (closed source)

I disagree with everyone.  ;o)

My recommendation, is to use Xvfb or the text console.  Almost no
hardware/driver related bugs/problems, and no big concerns over
openness of the code/specs/etc. ;o)





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