Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-22 Thread Walter Dnes
Thanks for the replies so far. At $450 (Canadian $) I'm not expecting a gaming rig. If it'll play youtube, stream my HDHomerun tuner, etc, I'll be happy. And of course email/surfing/spreadsheets/etc. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/12/21 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org:  I'm looking for a Boxing-Day gift for myself.  The local Walmart shows an interesting 17 Acer laptop at... http://www.walmart.ca/Electronics/Computers/Laptops/17quot-Laptops/Acer-Aspire-AS7551-3029-173-Notebook  Reading the specs, it does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) run just fine with the lastest kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/12/21 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/21/10 11:46:21, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/12/21 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Adam Carter
On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) run just fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Thanasis
on 12/21/2010 01:15 AM Walter Dnes wrote the following: I'm looking for a Boxing-Day gift for myself. The local Walmart shows an interesting 17 Acer laptop at... http://www.walmart.ca/Electronics/Computers/Laptops/17quot-Laptops/Acer-Aspire-AS7551-3029-173-Notebook Reading the specs, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/12/21 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com: On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of

[gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-20 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm looking for a Boxing-Day gift for myself. The local Walmart shows an interesting 17 Acer laptop at... http://www.walmart.ca/Electronics/Computers/Laptops/17quot-Laptops/Acer-Aspire-AS7551-3029-173-Notebook Reading the specs, it does not seem to be cutting corners, low price