Re: Linux on new powerbooks
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:00, eric.bachard@b.org wrote:
>
> B. Bogart a écrit:
> >
> > accelerated 3D on the radeon 9600
>
> no. not yet. XFree don't even work for me. Don't know why, because I'm
> using the last drm-trunk-src module...
Well, that doesn't make a difference, because the DRM doesn't support
9500 and up yet. Maybe you mean xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk though.
> > dual-monitor support for the radeon 9600
>
> No. The radeon 9600 support is very minimum for now.
Eh? It should work, the problem is likely that the radeon driver doesn't
recognize the chip, so you need to override it to a similar one it
knows.
> I think you'll have more luck buying an older powerbook with the radeon
> 9000, because (if I'm not wrong) this chipset works perfectly,
> accelerated 3D too under GNU/Linux
Indeed.
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