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Re: [SLE] Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology
  • From: stephan beal <stephan@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:32:17 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <200608231630.56337.stephan@xxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:16, Marius Roets wrote:
> One thing I forgot to mention. This is not related to the processor
> as such, but more to laptops in general, if you are thinking of
> getting a widescreen that is. I have found that there is no support
> for widescreen resolutions in Suse , or at least there wasn't for
> mine (I don't know enough to say whether this is a kernel, xorg or
> sax2 problem). So if you are getting a widescreen, make sure the
...

If by wide-screen you're including 1440x900, my laptop works out of the
box at that resolution on both Suse and Kubuntu. It's got some intel
graphics chipset (don't remember which one). i won't buy another
NVidia-based chipset, because of the hassle i have to go through to get
it working under Linux.

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