Laptop choices

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Wed Nov 23 02:21:15 GMT 2005


On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:43, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> > I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d).
>
> Well, not quite yet. X.Org 6.8 doesn't have any 3D support for modern
> Radeon chips and the forthcoming 6.9/7.0 will have "experimental"
> support. But 2D is working just fine (I am typing this on an Inspiron
> 8600C with ATI Radeon).

Mmm, the radeon man page claims Radeon 9000's are supported without caveats.

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