Mitch Anderson wrote:
Roberto Mello wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:03:23AM -0500, Michael Halcrow wrote:
I bought my wife an R50 a couple months ago. When it came in the
mail, I resized her partitions, handed her a copy of Ubuntu, and told
her to give it a shot. Half an hour later, she was up and running
with 3D acceleration, 802.11g, sound, and hibernation all working,
right out of the box. Setting up the printer was a matter of browsing
the local network and selecting the Laserjet that was shared to my
subnet. Setting up remote scanning was a matter of adding an IP
address to the xsane-net backend driver file. It was like magic.
I recommend the Thinkpads as well. Superb laptops. I have used a T42p
for
the past few months at work. The only problem with that specific
model is
that it has an ATI card that requires a proprietary driver (fglrx) to
get
3D acceleration, and you do that, you lose the ability to suspend-to-ram
or suspend-to-disk.
Without 3D acceleration, Ubuntu works great.
Not sure what fedora's using (i haven't looked into it closely..) but
ati hardware rendering works fine without the proprietary driver
Guess i should have said a bit more, sorry I was in a hurry...
However, I believe they've got the latest gatos driver for hardware
opengl? So I would expect other distros should be getting it in the
somewhat near future? I actually get better fps off it than I ever did
off the proprietary driver.
Mitch
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