On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 09:20:09AM -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: > On 10/12/2014 12:35 AM, Doug Hogan wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 02:13:05PM -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: > >>I have the opportunity to purchase a Dell laptop > >>with "Intel Crestline Graphics" hardware. Crestline > >>appears to be marketing speak for: > >> > >>intel GM965/GMA X3100 > >> > >>Can someone advice me as to the likelihood of using > >>the h/w or will I be limitied to the framebuffer? > > > >I think Crestline means the GMA X3100 core but not necessarily the > >GM965. According to Intel's ARK, it could be GM965, GME965, GL960 or > >GLE960. In practice, I don't think it will matter. > >http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/2672/Crestline > > > >One of my old laptops has a GM965 and it works fine in X. It's a > >Dell Inspiron 1525 that was advertised as having Crestline graphics. > >The only problem that I've run into on the laptop is that > >suspend/resume is flaky. > > Thanks to Doug & Chris for the information. It is good news. > > The machine in question is a Latitude D830. It has a T9500 > processor (64-bit @2.6GHz), a 1920x1200 display and a > serial port. I should have possession of the machine in > about a week and will report my progress/results. > > I hope to get accelerated graphics working so I can use it as > my personal workstation. I have been using OBSD for infrastructure > since 3.0, and Linux for my daily driver desktop. I have tried > moving my workstation to OBSD but always moved back because > I needed functionality only available on Linux. I so very much > want to be done with Linux even though I have been using it > since 0.9* kernels. > > If suspend/resume doesn't work, I can live with that. I will > be chasing -current so maybe it can be sorted out if need be. > I'm looking forward to this. > > Later, > Ray >
zzz/ZZZ should work fine on the machine. I have a D820 here that I test on pretty regularly and I think those machines are pretty close. Let me know if otherwise. -ml
