Recommended laptop for FC5, was: glxgears

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 00:57:37 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:52 -0800, alan wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> 
> > Where is glxgears in FC54T3? I just put my radeon 9250 in abgmode 8 and
> > think it is actually slower.
> 
> glx-utils
> 
> I have stopped using ati due to support issues.  nVIDIA may have closed 
> source drivers, but they have at least supported everything with them. 
> (ATI's support with their closed source driver depends on picking the 
> right card.)

So if I was buying a new laptop sometime soonish, what chipset is best
for all this new accelerated X stuff?

ati seems to not care about Linux, and I've heard bad things about
nvidia. I don't do games, so 3D isn't that important.

Thanks for any help,

Richard.




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