Florian Reitmeir wrote:
Hi, On Fre, 29 Dez 2006, Freddy Freeloader wrote:If you think you might want to run compiz or have any need for hardware graphics accelleration think twice before you buy a laptop with an ATI graphics card.i second that, and.. power management also only work with the ATI binary drivers.I have an HP Pavilion dv8000z with the ATI Radeon Xpress 200M and it will not work with the ATI drivers. Loading the fglrx driver at Xserver startup sends the cpu into a race condition that creates so much heat that the laptop will spontaneously reboot within less than a minute if I don't manually power off the system. I'm locked out of all the text consoles during that time also so there is no way to recover other than killing the system with the power switch.is Xpress 200M not supported by the r300 driver?
Not that I have been able to find and I'm not about to chance my hardware if it isn't. The card is purported by ATI to be supported by the ATI drivers, but sure doesn't work under them, at least not in the Pavilion's hardware configuration.
want/need hardware accelleration be positive that the card being used will work with the ATI drivers before you purchase your laptop. Your chances of having an Nvidia card work with Nvidia's drivers are much better.Intel Cards, are the one to choose.
Ah, yes, those 8-128 megs of shared ram cards....
Really.... And you know that by what process? Osmosis? Or were you as big a retard as you imply I am and bought exactly the same laptop I did?Now, I suspect that a part of my problems are caused by having a 64-bit cpu and the rest of the hardware being 32-bit, but that will probably be true of any other laptop with a 64-bit cpu too. I'm forced into running a 32-bit OS if I want wireless that starts with the OS. I can't use ndiswrapper in a pure 64-bit environment as the only Windows drivers available for the Broadcom chip are 32-bit and the 64-bit bcm43xx kernel module is something I've never gotten to work in any fashion.thats bullshit.
LOL. I did a lot of research and found either proprietary or open source drivers for all the hardware I cared about on this machine. Turns out some of the drivers that were said to work, don't, and ndiswrapper doesn't support software that I wasn't aware of when I bought the laptop, such as Airsnort. I bought what I found to be a good value for the money as I paid hundreds less than the advertised price for this machine and IF the drivers I found BEFORE I bought it had worked as they were said to I wouldn't be saying what I've said here. It's as simple as that.your error is/was to buy an laptop and "hope" that your OSwill run on it.
So, any laptop NOT reviewed at tux mobile is guaranteed not to work under Linux? ***rolls eyes*** Do all the laptops reviewed on tux mobile have "designed for Linux" stickers? If so, I wonder why that site was created? Anyway, I guess, according to you, the people who wrote all those reviews must have just been retards like me as they bought laptops that didn't have a "designed for Linux" sticker on them, and weren't on the list at tux mobile at the time they bought them. ***rolls eyes again***Is there a sticker "designed for linux" on it? Why did you buy hardware which is known not to work under linux? Aren't there enough reviews at tux mobile?