-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jacek Poplawski wrote: > I want to buy an old notebook with video card supported by DRI. > I know that Intel 810 is perfectly supported, but I want to buy > something cheaper (and older). > > Most of the pentium3 notebooks use S3 Savage and ATI Rage Mobility chips. > According to http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/CategoryHardware S3 Savage > and ATI Rage 128 are supported. > Is "ATI Rage Mobility 8MB" supported? Or is it something different than > Rage 128? > Is S3 Savage stable on current DRI? > There are some critical bugs in bugzilla (but there are also for r300 > which works perfect to me now). > > Which card would you recommend?
There are also Pentium3 notebooks that use i830 chipsets. I know that the Thinkpad R31 does. Given the choice between a Savage IX (like in the Thinkpad T21) or a Rage128 mobility (M3 or M4), it's probably a coin toss. I'd probably lean slightly towards the ATI chips. A SuperSavage (like in the Thinkpad T23) or Savage4 MX would probably better than the Rage M3 or M4. In all honesty, if graphics is important, you'd be much better off with a Radeon M6 (Thinkpad X22) or an i830. Looking on eBay, the T21 and R31 are the least expensive (both go for $100 or less). The X22 is a step up at ~$150, and the T23 is a bit more still at ~$200. The bias towards Thinkpads isn't because I work for IBM. It because http://thinkwiki.org/ has all the info right at my finger tips. :) Hope this helps. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGz1SDX1gOwKyEAw8RAjxeAJ9xbd03CvC4wJ68ZQcon1B2NjvtoACeJ0J+ P472n0Ldft5iYC3tqSjRuPI= =U3Hi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
