Am 31.01.2010 um 13:09 schrieb Pim van Pelt: > Hoi > > 2010/1/31 Stanislav Sinyagin <[email protected]>: >> couldn't believe my eyes yesterday at Mediamarkt: a quite solid netbook >> with 1 gig RAM for only 300 CHF. People on the net report quite >> good build quality, and Ubuntu running out of the box: >> >> http://www.pctipp.ch/news/hardware/50348/media_markt_angebote_top_oder_flop_p3.html > The price looks great, but I have one concern with the intel graphics; See > here: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-kick-your-friends-face-gma500 > > >> Grafikkarte: Intel GMA950
Yes you noticed, that it says GMA950 here, not GMA500? The chip is actually a GMA945GSE, and not one of the US15 or UL11 variants (which would be GMA500 based). > A Google colleague of mine has been trying to get this to work > accelerated, without much luck. His blog entry about it is here: > http://credentiality2.blogspot.com/2009/08/accelerated-video-on-dell-mini-10-with.html > > but note: this may be a different card - I'm pointing it out because > Intel graphics has seen a lot of criticism in the past, so if Windows > is not your target OS, perhaps this can be considered as a gentle > warning :) > Warning, warning the sky is falling, we are all going to die. Seriously, read up on the differences in architectures! There is this thing called the Internet where you might find some information. Short version: All GMA cores except GMA 500 are designed by Intel; they are documented, and drivers have been written for almost all of the functions available in the chipset. The GMA 500 is a PowerVR based core from Imagination Technologies. And this company sucks at releasing information on their HW, hence the driver-nightmare. Cheers, -daniel _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
