How about the support of FC for laptop?

Albert Vilella avilella at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 09:41:25 UTC 2004


http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html

has a lot of info...

    Albert.


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:49:47 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I would avoid Intel graphics. Nvidia works out of the box even with the
> > opensource driver...
> > and except for brand new releases of FC, their binary driver work well.
> >
> > Intel graphics are painful. They are integrated with the BIOSes, and
> > needed special hacks just to
> > get some video memory earlier... and stick suck badly wrt. to getting
> > proper display modes too
> >
> > I thought Intel was great, and Nvidia bad. Experience has taught me
> > otherwise.
> 
> I guess it all comes down to bios; I've seen a lot of cases where nvidia
> didn't work; even with the binary driver (nvidia focusses on the desktop
> chips not so much on the laptop ones).
> 
> So.. whatever you buy google first to see if others could make the
> laptop work.....
> 
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