Recommended laptop for FC5, was: glxgears

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 08:47 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 00:57 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:52 -0800, alan wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Where is glxgears in FC54T3? I just put my radeon 9250 in abgmode 8 and
> > > > think it is actually slower.
> > > 
> > > glx-utils
> > > 
> > > I have stopped using ati due to support issues.  nVIDIA may have closed 
> > > source drivers, but they have at least supported everything with them. 
> > > (ATI's support with their closed source driver depends on picking the 
> > > right card.)
> > 
> > So if I was buying a new laptop sometime soonish, what chipset is best
> > for all this new accelerated X stuff?
> > 
> > ati seems to not care about Linux, and I've heard bad things about
> > nvidia. I don't do games, so 3D isn't that important.
> 
> go intel.. intel video is well supported and open
> (David will now say that it uses the bios to do mode setting and that it
> thus isn't fully open, but i'll ignore him for now :)

Thanks, that sounds the most definitive.

I'll do some googling on specific chipsets to make sure.

Thanks.

Richard.