On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 01:40, Chad wrote: > On Monday 18 Oct 2004 6:57 pm, Isaac Devine wrote: > > > Also has any one had any experience with Athlon64 laptops or at least > > > Athlon based laptops also any experience with ATI based Mobility GPU's > > > (9600, 9700) and 3D under linux would be appreciated. > > > > The ati cards don't have *full* drivers for 64bit linux. Are you > > wanting to do/use any opengl (3d) stuff? > > > > What distro are you wanting to put on it? > Gentoo, Mandrake :) or both though SUSE 9.2 (when it's out) might be an > option. Possibly one 32bit one 64 bit still thinking about it. Do the ATI > drivers (32bit) acctually support the mobility CPU's? As it seems abit > muddled reading various things found using google.
I think that the latest xorg (6.8.0) has much improved support for the mobility series. http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/RELNOTES2.html#7 Radeon driver updates: Merged Framebuffer support (dualhead with DRI) DynamicClocks option (reduced power usage) Render acceleration (r100, r200 chips only) Support for new ATI chips (R420/M18, R423, RV370/M22, RV380/M24, RS300) DRI support for IGP chips Xv gamma correction Updated 3D drivers Many other small fixes > > Probably going to be used a bit for the ocasional game so GL support would be > nice. But not critical for linux after all a windows Partion can be > maintained for that if need be. > > (Note I think you can set blank reply-to's in gmail now you might want to > consider doing that). > > Chad
