On 07/04/10 10:56, Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 10:12 +0100, Ross Kendall wrote: > >> Personally, I plan on installing Meego on an old Thinkpad T23 (pentium >> 3) for use by my young son. No reason why this couldn't be a good >> laptop OS. >> > The Netbook UI depends on a 3D acceleration, so whilst a build targetted > at older processors may boot, whether it is usable is an entirely > different question. A quick google says that the T23 has a S3 > SuperSavage GPU with 16MB of VRAM, which doesn't sound promising. > > Ross > OK, thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that. Was that also the case for Moblin?
Is it just eye-candy that depends on 3D acceleration, or is it fundamental to the UI? One thought is that this might be an issue for the use of open-source graphics drivers (as usually proprietary drivers are needed for 3D) Cheers, Ross K _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
