[gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-01-27 Thread Rui Silva
hello ppl i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb graphic card. R300 based How are the drivers for this graphic card?? Is ATI LInux driver good enough?? i'm not going to play games. just the aplications commonly used. What about video out??

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-01-27 Thread Mike Hoy
i use ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP Host Brid with hardly any probs, screen res is 1024 x 768 can play tux racer... never tried video out but bottom line is nVidia is better supported.. Rui Silva wrote: hello ppl i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. the model i'm interested has

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-01-27 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:19:58 +, Rui Silva wrote: > i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. > the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb graphic card. R300 > based > How are the drivers for this graphic card?? I'm the (quite happy) owner of an IBM thinkpad T41P, which has an

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-01-28 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Rui, Friday, January 28, 2005, 2:19:58 AM, you wrote: RS> share your experiences please, help me decide Not sure we've got that long the time it took me to get my ATI drivers to work. Other people seem to have them working OK but it took me over a week to get mine half working. They stil

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-01-28 Thread Rui Silva
thks for the answers. i'm not going to play games with the notebook, only for normal de desktop use. console, open office, and other kde apps. NO GAMES working only with this things do i need more then the xorg dri module?? i've read some much things, but the things i've read are somehow contr

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-01-28 Thread Rui Silva
i forgot something. can i work with vesafb using the refered card, or do i have to use radeonfb?? -- Rui Silva Powered by Gentoo Linux under CELERON 1000 - Stage1 install with nptl http://rukinhas.no-ip.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-01-29 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Friday 28 January 2005 22:08, Rui Silva wrote: > i forgot something. can i work with vesafb using the refered card, or > do i have to use radeonfb?? AFAIK, vesafb (or at least vesafb-tng, that's what I've tried) is working with these cards. I had some troubles to suspend or hibernate with