Hi, On Fre, 29 Dez 2006, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > If you think you might want to run compiz or have any need for hardware > graphics accelleration think twice before you buy a laptop with an ATI > graphics card.
i second that, and.. power management also only work with the ATI binary drivers. > I have an HP Pavilion dv8000z with the ATI Radeon Xpress 200M and it > will not work with the ATI drivers. Loading the fglrx driver at Xserver > startup sends the cpu into a race condition that creates so much heat > that the laptop will spontaneously reboot within less than a minute if I > don't manually power off the system. I'm locked out of all the text > consoles during that time also so there is no way to recover other than > killing the system with the power switch. is Xpress 200M not supported by the r300 driver? > want/need hardware accelleration be positive that the card being used > will work with the ATI drivers before you purchase your laptop. Your > chances of having an Nvidia card work with Nvidia's drivers are much better. Intel Cards, are the one to choose. > Now, I suspect that a part of my problems are caused by having a 64-bit > cpu and the rest of the hardware being 32-bit, but that will probably be > true of any other laptop with a 64-bit cpu too. I'm forced into running > a 32-bit OS if I want wireless that starts with the OS. I can't use > ndiswrapper in a pure 64-bit environment as the only Windows drivers > available for the Broadcom chip are 32-bit and the 64-bit bcm43xx kernel > module is something I've never gotten to work in any fashion. thats bullshit. your error is/was to buy an laptop and "hope" that your OS will run on it. Is there a sticker "designed for linux" on it? Why did you buy hardware which is known not to work under linux? Aren't there enough reviews at tux mobile? -- Florian Reitmeir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
