Hi Thomas, I've had good experiences with a Savage IX/MV chipset. Not sure if it's available in newer laptops, this one is a Gateway Solo 5300 - 550MHz w/128MB RAM. The Savage framebuffer patch that comes with DirectFB is functional but still needs some work. I found the standard VesaFB to be better, particularly when used in XDirectFB.
Savage is supported under XFree, so it does XVideo fine. No 3D hardware acceleration as of yet, but a DRI driver is being worked on. I've yet to try utah-glx's driver. Regards, Rick On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:18, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking of getting a new laptop. Does anyone have experience with > DirectFB on laptops ? Which card/laptop type is the best to use with the > current codebase ? AFAIK there are no Matrix-based laptop video cards. > What's the next best laptop video chipset to use with DirectFB ? > > Preferably, it should also do XVideo under normal X, and have an > opensource driver (ie, no nvidia for example). > > Thomas > > Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://davedina.apestaart.org/ > <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> > I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend > What if something's on TV and it's never shown again > Just as well I'm not invited I'm afraid of heights > I lied about being the outdoor type > <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> > URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.rug.ac.be/ > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
