Philip Webb <purslow <at> sympatico.ca> writes:
> Those (at least) who kindly responded will remember my request > for advice re the new machine I am designing to run Gentoo. > (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as > "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 > integrated High-definition video processing > with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp <at> 75 Hz ; > maximum shared memory 256 MB ; supports OpenGL 1.5, Pixel Shader 2.0 ". > It appears that with this mobo I don't need a separate graphics card > unless I want very high-performance gaming or similar; > also, it uses open-source drivers (can anyone confirm?). I'm not certain about your video assumptions. I've just install gentoo on a sony viao (see recent threads) and never got the intel 810 driver working. After extensive googling, the version of the chips does not work with the 810 intel drivers. Lots of people blame sony, but, I'm sure Intel provided a chip that is unusuable with the 810 driver. (I believe it's a 965GM to be specific). > Any further comments, suggestions or warnings are very welcome. > I hope the info is useful to others planning new boxes for Gentoo. You might want to find a store where a system with this mobo is and see in anybody's liveCD (knoppix, gentoo, etc) boots up with a graphics driver other than vesa...... hth, James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
