Re: AMD M780G with ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics
Hey,
I have a HP laptop with the Radeon HD3200 graphics card. 3d is supported by the radeon driver, along with KMS (kernel modesetting). I currently use the fglrx driver as the radeon driver currently lacks power management. According to http://mjg59.livejournal.com/122190.html , power management support is being added to newer kernels. While using the radeon driver, I had a KDE4 Desktop running using compositing and was able to play opengl games (specifically supertux and smc). Movies seemed to work well.
All test were performed on a mix of squeeze and sid packages on my laptop (sid kernel + some graphics components). Make sure to run linux-image-2.6.32-4-*, not -3! -4 has various improvements in the kernel drivers.
Matthew
On Saturday 01 May 2010 10:08:45 Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am considering the purchase of a new netbook/laptop and I think I am
> quite interested in the Lenovo Thinkpad x100e:
>
> http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/
> catalog.workflow:item.detail?
> vt=5&GroupID=37&Code=X100e_INTEL_BEST&hide_menu_area=true
>
> I have read various reviews on the internet and the only thing that makes
> me wonder about it is the graphic chipset (AMD M780G with ATI Radeon HD
> 3200 graphics).
> I checked x.org and the chipset is supported by the open source radeonhd
> driver (good), but apparently it does not have 3D acceleration (bad).
>
> Does anyone have this chipset? Can you comment on the quality?
> I am not trying to play intensive games, I just want to know if I can
> watch a movie on it without dropping frames like my ancient PIII system.
>
> Needless to say I'd run sid on it.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>
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