On 04.05.2009 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Well, I read the Link you provided, and I suggest you should read the > update here: > http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/03/19/news-from-the-poulsbo-front/ > > Basically the driver is being changed to full open source style
Yeh, I've read it at the time, but note that it "is being changed" so it's not there yet -- the original poster wanted to buy a product working today. > xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.2.0-3.fc10.i386.rpm which supports GMA-500 pretty Even after this work is done, we will get VESA! No 3D acceleration. So, for the time being, it looks safer to go with the traditional Intel chipsets. > As I wrote in my blog about Netbook graphics chipsets > (http://benhamo.org/wp/?p=1423), soon there will be some netbooks > using the ION chipsets with nVidia 9400M which fully supports all it's > features under any Linux distribution. With binary only drivers... no thanks. However, I'm optimistic because the general situation in graphic chipsets is improving rapidly -- Intel works hard to get supported drivers into upstream kernel, and AMD/ATI are keeping their promises so far and add the missing pieces as well. > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Oron Peled <o...@actcom.co.il> wrote: > > On 03.05.2009 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > >> All the netbooks that are in the market today will work with any > >> modern Linux distribution (Ubuntu 8.X, 9.X, OpenSuSE 10.X and up, > >> Fedora 9 and above, RHEL 5 and above, Debian Lenny, etc) since those > >> netbooks all use the same Intel crappy chipset which has Linux support > >> for few years now. > > > > Making sure you have a crappy Intel chipset is normally a good way > > to have good Linux support out of the box. > > > > However, there are exceptions. Specifically, the GMA-500 > > currently sucks big-time and unfortunately it is used by Dell > > Mininote (and maybe others). > > > > For some gory details (long URL): > > http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/30/intel-gma-500-poulsbo-graphics-on- > > linux-a-precise-and-comprehensive-summary-as-to-why-youre-screwed/ > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 > > o...@actcom.co.il http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron > > Ignore Your Rights And They'll Go Away > > > > > > > > -- > Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. > my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
