Hey, I have a HP laptop with the Radeon HD3200 graphics card. 3d is supported by the radeon driver, along with KMS (kernel modesetting). I currently use the fglrx driver as the radeon driver currently lacks power management. According to http://mjg59.livejournal.com/122190.html , power management support is being added to newer kernels. While using the radeon driver, I had a KDE4 Desktop running using compositing and was able to play opengl games (specifically supertux and smc). Movies seemed to work well.
All test were performed on a mix of squeeze and sid packages on my laptop (sid kernel + some graphics components). Make sure to run linux-image-2.6.32-4-*, not -3! -4 has various improvements in the kernel drivers. Matthew On Saturday 01 May 2010 10:08:45 Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Hello list, > > I am considering the purchase of a new netbook/laptop and I think I am > quite interested in the Lenovo Thinkpad x100e: > > http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/ > catalog.workflow:item.detail? > vt=5&GroupID=37&Code=X100e_INTEL_BEST&hide_menu_area=true > > I have read various reviews on the internet and the only thing that makes > me wonder about it is the graphic chipset (AMD M780G with ATI Radeon HD > 3200 graphics). > I checked x.org and the chipset is supported by the open source radeonhd > driver (good), but apparently it does not have 3D acceleration (bad). > > Does anyone have this chipset? Can you comment on the quality? > I am not trying to play intensive games, I just want to know if I can > watch a movie on it without dropping frames like my ancient PIII system. > > Needless to say I'd run sid on it. > > Thanks for your help! > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
