Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-11 Thread Walter Dnes
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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
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
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