On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:26:36AM +0100, valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> So I have three options to suggest to my friend: >>> - Latest Fedora or Mint but with Vesa driver only, and maybe can't >>> even get full resolution then >>> - Old Ubuntu (but still supported) + prorietary drivers >>> - full blown priprietary - Windows 7 + Intel/PowerVR driver >> >> There also exist USB-based GPUs, ie. external GPUs that plug into >> laptops (or any machine) using USB. >> >> Although I don't think it's worth rescuing this "cheap 13" laptop" by >> spending yet more money on hardware which might have its own driver >> issues. >> >> Probably best to get rid of it on eBay and buy a decent laptop. The >> ARM-based Samsung Chromebook is very cheap and runs Fedora. > > The ARM laptop will have the same or worse issues in terms of GPU as > the x86 one. re: anything with powervr (arm or intel), sadly the best answer is run away as fast as possible re: arm chromebooks, well, there is some hope of eventually getting an open source driver, but it will be a long process. Currently gnome-shell and related components in fedora need desktop opengl so blob driver doesn't help much. Having more stuff built w/ gles support would perhaps help. But at least last time I tried (which admittedly was a while ago), gnome-shell + llvmpipe was usable on the exynos5 chromebook. BR, -R > Peter > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
