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 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who don't have it." -- George Bernard Shaw -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
