[PD] pd on gericom masterpiece 2440

[pix]

just to reiterate the point, the radeon 9000 has a "full featured" driver
supplied by ati (closed source, the graphics chip industry is a cloak and
dagger affair presently - the current ati staff conference attire is an
urban cammo tshirt with the ati logo).

http://mirror.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html

unlike the nvidia chips, it _appears_ that the radeon 9000 _mobility_
(laptop version) is compatible with the normal desktop version, whereas
with nvidia, the similarity between model numbers of mobility and desktop
cards is purely cosmetic. i mention this because there are reports of the
desktop raadeon 9000 driver working on the mobility version - behaviour
you wouldn't expect with nvidia chips.

in addition to the closed source driver from ati, you can also choose from
the driver that comes with xfree (providing only 2d accelleration
apparently), or the driver from dri.sf.net which may or may not provide
some 3d support. and if for some reason none of these does what you want,
you can look into acceleratedX (the theory being that they have licensed
hardware info from ati, which is why you have to pay for it - they seem to
be quite focussed on multihead support which will be important if you want
to do any kind of video performance).

if it weren't for the fact that my current laptop is working adequately at
the moment, i'd probably buy something with an ati card in it. *waits for
current laptop to burst into flames*

or you can just wait a few months until nvidia leapfrogs ati again ;)

pix.

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:20:04 +1100
delire <delire at selectparks.net> wrote:

> pix and i got X up on this box but from memory hardware accelleration
> was hard for some reason [although we both use a range of hw
> accellerated cards on other machines under linux]. our inability to
> install may have had something to do with the fact we were in a remote
> croatian village at the time, with one dialup modem feeding the entire
> town.
> 
> i use a radeon 7500 on my dell i8k with the < http://dri.sf.net > with
> amazing performance [often faster than win32 and the same card]. this is
> your best bet with the dri.
> 
> ps don't buy the gericom if it rattles, the one we worked with did.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> julian
> 
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:47:17 +0100
> Andre Schmidt <andre at vju-tv.net> wrote:
> 
> //hi,
> //
> //i'm about to buy my very first notebook :) and saw this on media-markt
> 
> //(germany)
> //
> //http://shop.mediamarkt.de/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?pr
> oductId=16005&catalogId=5000&langId=-3&storeId=5000&categoryId=10001//
> //it's a GERICOM Masterpiece 2440
> //- P4 2,4GHz
> //- 512MB
> //- ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, 64MB
> //- etc...
> //
> //my only worry is that does linux (i prefer suse) and PD+GEM work on
> this //machine. specially that ATI chip. on my desktop with
> geforce2mx440 i didn't //get the 3D drivers from nvidia to work
> :(...audio ist mir wurst, because i //will buy an usb/firewire audio
> interface later...//
> //so, if any1 has/heard this machine with linux+pd+gem, let me know...
> //i will be buying it tomorrow, a special sonday here in frankfurt, the
> shops //are open form 13 to 18 :))))
> //
> //cheers
> //-andre
> //ps. i'm pretty sure that pd+gem will work on windows with this
> machine, but i //WANT linux...
> //
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