Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:04:54PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote It features an Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 video chip. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_graphics_media_accelerator the 3100 chip is very similar to the GMA 950, which works very well under Linux. Thanks. Good to know. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:04:54PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_graphics_media_accelerator the 3100 chip is very similar to the GMA 950, which works very well under Linux. Thanks. Good to know. And within a few hours someone posts a lockup bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11937 :| You can be pretty certain it will get fixed, though. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying
Walter Dnes wrote: It features an Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 video chip. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_graphics_media_accelerator the 3100 chip is very similar to the GMA 950, which works very well under Linux. The G33 and friends are listed in drm_pciids.txt, under i915, and Mesa has an i915 driver. So it should work fine. And if not, you can file a bug with Mesa -- they're fixing tiny correctness bugs every week. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list