On Dec 27, 2007 12:46 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote: > Edward Shu wrote: > >> The biggest obstacle to having all the devices on your laptop > >> supported right now is probably your video driver - you'd either > >> need an ancient ATI Rage XL chip like the Ultra 20 motherboard > >> or Nvidia graphics supported by the nvidia accelerated driver, > >> as those are the only two video drivers with power management > >> done yet. Intel graphics chipsets will probably be the next ones > >> supported, but I don't know when. > >> > >> > > supported, but I don't know when. > > > > Toshiba M5, M8, M9 were supposed to be supported soon. > > Among these laptops, M5 and M9 have Nvidia chips. And M8 > > was equipped wit Intel embedded chip. > > > > Some M9's have the Intel chip. It depends. But yes, we're working on > these models, as well as models from Apple. > > Some of ATI's newer parts are probably amongst the least likely to get > reasonable support, owing to the lack of good supporting information > from the vendor. > > -- Garrett > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
Hello! That's not a fair assessment of the ATI division of AMD. On this computer I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro video card. Naturally it went out of service as far as they are concerned seven years ago. (They also refuse to believe there are people out there who do not upgrade to the fastest and best hardware every one or two years!) But while it was still covered I could ask them questions and get answers within a reasonable amount of time. However the big problem is getting developer grade information out of them, they still insist on the illogic of an NDA, and sometimes act reluctant and even irrational when they find out that this is for an open source, (read either Open Solaris, or Linux) project. However, AMD has been very helpful with nearly everything the community is interested in doing. It is widely believed that this will become the norm within the entire community that is AMD and ATI. However, given the strangeness of suspend and resume, take a look at the issues concerning these features and Linux. Yes that is a different OS entirely, but the issues are still the same. As I recall the only favorite issue there is with using a laptop running that one and a projector. However each time I am at an event at a Sun office in Manhattan and a laptop belonging to the presenter for example does do that, it wakes up with out too many issues. -- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway."
