Re: AMD M780G with ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics
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Matthew Dawson wrote:
> 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.
Does that mean that it won't run with stable? Because there's no 2.6.32
in stable, much less specific subversions. stable runs 2.6.26.
> On Saturday 01 May 2010 10:08:45 Jack Malmostoso wrote:
>> I am considering the purchase of a new netbook/laptop and I think I am
>> quite interested in the Lenovo Thinkpad x100e:
>>
>> 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.
"Needless to say"? Run sid if you like, but why exactly is that the
obvious choice for a netbook?
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