On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 07:34, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, > > Maybe (just maybe) I'll be buying a new laptop. My current laptop has a > trident cyberblade i7 card, which sucks under linux. I have flickerings > and _no_ 3D acceleration at all. My thoughts are: new hardware, good > (perfect?) compatibility with Debian, ;-) > > Any thoughts on ATI Radeon Mobility 7000, 7500 and alike? You can't > download ATI Mobility drivers for linux from their site, :-(. How about > the basic XFree 4.2/4.3 drivers? DRI? I understand the 'normal' Radeons > are supported quite well, but the Mobility ones? I _really_ want a > laptop which doesn't turn out to be incompatible with Debian. And since > I'll be paying a _lot_ of money, I want DRI compatibility as well. > I have an IBM A31 with a Mobility 7500 chip; currently running testing. It works well with X4.2; but without 3D hardware acceleration. From what I am told, if you use X4.3, hardware acceleration should work.
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