[ltp] T60p, free driver?

Aaron Mulder linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 15 May 2007 22:07:08 -0400


That right, but the "good" news is, the T61 comes with an Nvidia option.  :)

Thanks,
     Aaron

On 5/15/07, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Am I correct in assuming that the T60p driver has only two choices:
> vesa, or fglrx?
>
> I find that the fglrx driver is too unstable (crashes about once a
> month, locking the system solid) - eg by doing repeated dragging within
> google-maps.
>
> On the other hand, the vesa driver is unusable, since for vertical
> scrolling within (eg firefox), the screen re-paints very slowly.
>
> Is there any open driver which has better performance than the vesa one?
> [I don't really care if I have to forego 3d screensavers]
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Richard
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