On Tuesday 19 November 2002 20:48, Ola Theander wrote: > Dear subscribers. > > I'm planning to buy a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with an ATI Radeon 9000 > Mobility 64 MB as the chosen graphics accelerator. I would like to know > if there are drivers available for this card for Linux, preferably with > both 2D and OpenGL (3D) support. I'm running SuSE Linux 8.0 > Professional. > > Any comments on the suitability of this computer for running Linux are > also welcome.
The best place IMHO to get an answer to your question is http://google.com/linux Place Dell Inspriron 8200 in the search engine and you will get a big suprise. The experts dont seem to like it much tho, as a matter of fact they moaned at Redhat a lot as well, good job redhat has problems on laptops. I suggest you should read this one as well, it will be in the list you get from google but i read this one. http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell8200.html Take a close look at the XF86Config-4 file, they use the nvidia driver if you read on and digest you will see that the radeon is not fully supported "yet". > > Kind regards, Ola Theander > -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
