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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Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca
Proud Canadian.
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