Guys, I'm starting to look for another laptop. My current laptop is just fine, but it will not run 11.2 due to the lack of an ati (fglrx) driver. The current radeon or radeonhd driver are unworkable due to the heat/fan noise produced by the lack of sufficient gpu downclocking in the drivers to keep the temps down. Not to mention the 500% loss of graphics performance and continual Desktop Effects compositing shutdowns that occur. So for the time being, I've wiped 11.2 from my laptop and have gone back to 11.0. (sweet by the way) With the fglrx driver, my laptop is silent and blazing fast. With the radeon or radeonhd drivers, my laptop is loud as hell (fans on all the time) and the graphics suck. What I need to know is whether the newer fglrx driver for 2400+ series ATI laptop gpus works, from both a performance and cooling (fan noise) standpoint and whether you are satisfied with the chipsets. Also, from folks running nvidia based laptops, if you have a gpu chipset that works good with the nvidia driver, let me know. There are no sites that really compare opensuse laptop installs, gpu kernel modules, and the performance/cooling qualities. My current laptops with 9600 pro and x1200 chipsets work fabulous with the fglrx driver in 11.0, but are worthless for running 11.1 or 11.2 due to driver issues. I like good graphics performance and I want to gather information on what the current good laptop chipsets are. I have never really had that much luck with intel cards. They work fine, they're just slow even with EXA and UXA options. The ati cards worked fine until ATI stuck it to its linux customers. So what says the braintrust? Which laptop gpus work? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org