On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 10:16 +0200, Marius Roets wrote:
On 8/22/06, Joe Zien
wrote: Marius
I wish to thank all for your input. Now I can be sure this technology is ok for linux.
Thanks again
jozien
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 video chipset has a linux driver available. My Acer has an ATI X1400 card, and the linux driver for that is working very well. ATI releases a new linux driver every month or so, and the support for new chipsets are added with each. I don't know if NVidia is also as supportive of their linux customers.
Marius
My Dell D820 1920x1200 works out of the box (first distro to do so, 10.0 needed an Intel firmware hack, I see its included in the boot process now with 10.1) Widescreen laptop with second LCD 1280x1024 works better than in XP. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm