-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Dawson wrote: > 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.
Does that mean that it won't run with stable? Because there's no 2.6.32 in stable, much less specific subversions. stable runs 2.6.26. > On Saturday 01 May 2010 10:08:45 Jack Malmostoso wrote: >> I am considering the purchase of a new netbook/laptop and I think I am >> quite interested in the Lenovo Thinkpad x100e: >> >> 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. "Needless to say"? Run sid if you like, but why exactly is that the obvious choice for a netbook? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvfEuUACgkQ+VSRxYk440/ojACg5EZBxjGxRbYbjCnBCmk5oIT7 OpAAnizl4REj+zFbL3nEHgZd5CNK3GKG =1sl0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
