There is a "radeon" driver in all recent distros of XFree86 (RedHat 9.0, etc). I use this in a Dell D600 (ATI Mobility (C) Radeon (R) 9000 M9). The driver is rock solid, and supports all resolutions and colour depths of the card, as far as I can tell. However, it does not support the 3D acceleration of the card. This could make watching DVD a bit jerky, for example. If you want the 3D acceleration to work you have a number of options: 1. It may work out of the box (depending on what other hardware is involved in the graphics system), with nothing more than the tweaking of a parameter or two in the X config file. 2. Install or upgrade one or more of: the radeon driver, XFree86, Xorg, or DRI (the Direct Rendering Interface) libraries. 3. Use the ATI proprietary binary-only driver for the card. My experience with the binary-only driver is that it would occasionally cause the entire machine to freeze, so I am investigating the other options. The main competitor to ATI is nVidia. There are, to my knowledge, no open-source drivers for these cards that also support the 3D acceleration. On the other hand, the binary-only drivers supplied by nVidia are reportedly much more robust than the ATI ones. I chose the ATI card because I believe that I will be able to get the full performance of the card without resorting to proprietary drivers. Cheers! Nik On Tuesday 18 January 2005 23:52, Gordon Stewart wrote: > Dear List > > I am planning to get a Toshiba A60 157 laptop. The Graphics card it uses > is a ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON™ 7000 IGP. > > Does any one see a problem with installing Xwindows? If they do can some > one recommend a good laptop that does not have a problem with Xwindows. > > Thanks > > Gordon _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
