Justin,
One of our clients bought a Dell Inspiron thinking they'd be able to get
hardware 3D acceleration... big mistake. We chased ATI, we chased
Dell... no luck. One Dell technician didn't even know what OpenGL was.
What we found out was that ATI must provide a very limited base
reference driver (without OpenGL support) and the chipset, it is then up
to the laptop manufacturer (Dell or whoever) to implement real support.
ATI refuses to provide any development or driver support for the
Mobility chipset, they insist that is completely up to the
manufacturer. In the case of Dell we were told they have NO plans to
provide OpenGL support.
- John Wright
Starfire Research
Justin Couch wrote:
>
> Jimmy Talbot wrote:
>
> > We bought an IBM THinkpad A20p with Rage Mobility 128, Win2k. Although
> > RM128 is supposed to support HW T&L, IBM's implementation doesn't. That's
> > right, here I was thinking I was going awesome performance... But noooo,
> > IBM is actually allowed to modify ATI's specs.
>
> Hmmm. Do you know how the Win98 drivers go doing the same thing? I'm
> looking at the Dell Inspiron 7K as the target notebook of choice at the
> moment.
>
> --
> Justin Couch Author, Java Hacker
> http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java 3D FAQ Maintainer
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