Re: ati vs nvidia, how to tell if sleep is supported
Am Sonntag, 26. März 2006 17:22 schrieb Tamas K Papp:
> Hi,
>
> I need to get a new notebook in the near future, and want an AMD
> Turion. At the moment I am trying to narrow down the search, I found
> some reasonably priced Asus, MSI and HP models.
>
> Some models come with Nvidia cards, some with ATI. On linux forums I
> was told that I should avoid ATI because their attitude about Linux
> support (especially for 64bit). Is Nvidia better in this respect?
> Should I prefer one over the other? I am not doing any gaming, but
> sometimes rely on OpenGL for data visualization.
>
> Another thing I am concerned about is sleep (suspend to RAM). Some
> Turion notebooks are pretty new and not all of them have a writeup at
> tuxmobil/linux-laptop.net, so I don't know if sleep works. How can
> one tell that by the specifications? Which component does sleep
> support depend on, the BIOS, the chipset, the graphics card? Anything
> to watch out for --- are there sleep problems with Nvidia/ATI?
>
On ati-devices only the vesa driver runs fine
-- follow the tread http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253
--
mit freundlichem Gruss -- regards
Thomas Drillich
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