[ltp] some questions about linux and thinkpad

[Osho GG]

ATI's cards have very bad linux drivers. Nvidia has much bad drivers
for linux. So, if you care about 3d acceleration try to get a laptop
with Nvidia cards.

IBM Laptops (T42p is my recommendation) are the best  but
unfortunately they have ATI's drivers.

Regarding wireless: Intel's IPW 2200 is working great for me with the
drivers from ipw2200.sf.net .

Multihead and Xinerama are supported but you can't switch from one to
another on the fly without restarting X server - which makes it pretty
useless for me. This is the limitation of the current state of art of
X implementation. There are ways to get around to it (see archives of
this mailing list) - but they are rather painful. and again - ATI's
drivers don't support it as well as Nvidia's drivers.

Osho


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:03:49 +0100, Fiz V=E1zquez <vud1@sindominio.net> wro=
te:
> Hi all:
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> i am interested in buy a thinkpad laptop (for example r50 or r51 one) to
> use only with linux. I would like to answer some questions before buy
> it.
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> * works fine the light keyboard with linux?
> * what is the best graphic card to use with linux? (radeon mobile 7500,
> radeon mobile 9000 or intel extreme 2)
> * have this cards good dri support? (i found contradictory information
> about that)
> * Have this cards (and thinkpad motherboard) suppport for multihead and
> xinerama?
> * the wireless card ("IBM 11b/g Wi-Fi wireless") works fine in linux?
> what is the chipset?
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> thats all. :) if you have more advise for me it will be wellcome.
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> thanks for all
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Osho