On Wed, 28 May 2008, Alberto Botti wrote: > Il giorno mar, 27/05/2008 alle 23.00 -0400, cdr ha scritto: > > eg if you care about driving a decent display, you can narrow out anything w/o > > dual-link DVI, HDMI, or Displayport. which means everything except the macbookpro or thinkpad with a dock.. > > > > both of those use Nvidia afaik. so if you want a digital external display w/ Intel drivers, you need to wait for Displayport in Montevina (Centrino-2). which is a couple months > > The Dell M1330 has a HDMI port and is available with a X3100 Intel > graphics controller (or a NVidia 8400). I haven't tried it but according > to the Xorg list it should work (video only, no audio at the moment). > If you live in the US or in some European countries you can order the > M1330n, preloaded with Ubuntu Linux. > > Note that the X3100 is pretty slow (it's often slower than previous > Intel integrated cards) and its drivers are sometimes unstable in 3D, so > go for it only if you don't care about 3D (compiz works reasonably well > though), need good multi-monitor support and can't stand proprietary > drivers. > > Also, its HDA audio (which it's the same as my Dell Vostro 1400) is > almost totally unusable with JACK... Intel-HDA I assume? Try 3 periods per buffer (obviously unlike every other card on the Earth and the moon). Works pretty well* with that on my toshiba with Intel HDA. Although I am looking for a good firewire card at the moment. Doesn't work with any powers of 2 almost at all (managed to start it with 2ppb once with 64 ms latency) * I had Ardour2, rosegarden, hydrogen, zyn and amsynth using jack at the same time with 8.sth ms latency at 36% CPU. And aeolus. God Bless Jonty _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
