Dave Airlie wrote:

> There is a Dell stand in the Bondi Junction Westfield in front of JB Hifi
> or the floor above/below it... they might let you reboot a laptop with
> Knoppix.

Oh cool, thats really near to me. Brilliant.

> The Intel cards although not breaking any land speed records are
> accelerated using open source drivers from Tungsten Graphics and Intel,
> the new Radeon X300/x600 type cards have closed source fglrx drivers from
> ATI (mostly correct rendering, not always stable) or open source drivers
> (reverse engineered, can play quake 3,not always stable but getting
> better), I bought an Insprion 6000 a while back and it had an x300 and I
> had to go write the PCIe support for the cards myself, but I've committed
> it all to X/kernel now so nobody else should need to feel that pain..

Great to know. Thanks David.

Cheers,
Erik

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