Es Dissabte 12 Gener 2002 17:16, en tester va escriure: > I have tweaked them a bit and they do work fine, and the drivers are > already in the XFree4.1.0 Ok, fine.
> SiS has been the most linux-friendly of the chipset makers for a while. > If you go to www.linuxbios.org, you will find that there is a BIOS > that boots linux with framebufferX in 3 seconds installed on boards > boasting the 630 chipset. 8-) If i purchase a laptop with that chipset i think i'll wait until garanty has expired ;) > Performance of video is moderate, not what can be accomplished by say a > voodoo card, but still quite well for an integrated chipset. This is almost the only thing worrying me. My first (and last) laptop was a 500mhz celeron with an AGP2x Ati and It had low performance for games... and my neibourgs were angry!! ;) I've found some information on SIS630 chipset at: http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000810/budget-02.html http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q4/001009/ But it is compared with a Geforce2 DDR. If i was sure the SIS630 graphics engine had similar performance to a Geforce2mx200 for instance... > Poorly-designed boards with SiS 7018 sound sometimes cannot be detected, > but a kernel driver has been in since 2.3.40. The ECS K7S5A is an > example of poor board design limiting the usefulnes of the chipset (in > this case the 735 from SiS). So i could have a linux with no sound... as i already had with my old laptop 8-/ > The SiS900 also has a driver in the kernel, > and those open-source drivers were written by SiS. Those are good news ;) > CIvileme Thanks again for your answer! As i'm not in a hurry (it's for personal use) i'll wait until Athlon4 is really in the market ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain Yahoo & AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
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