[ltp] accelerated graphics on a thinkpad?

[Peter Theunis]

Hi William,

It really depends of what you mean by *accelerated graphics* but the latest high-end Thinkpads T40 ship with Radeon 9000 mobility or FireGL 9000 and have decent 3D performance.

I got the 237394U with a Radeon 9000 chipset because supposedely it has better gaming 3D and works fine the Radeon driver (which has been around for a while); I'm still in the process of configuring it; but the radeon framebuffer seems to work quite well so far.

There are a few reports of people configuring X (you need the latest CVS version), go to http://www.tuxmobil.org/centrino.html and check-out the T40 reports over there, good luck.

peter

William R Sherman [wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a request for information about the current crop of Thinkpads.
> I've been using Linux on a Thinkpad 760, and now on a 770Z for several
> years, and have had pretty good experience (often because of help
> from this mailing list).  But now I need a new laptop, and since I've
> had good fortune with Thinkpads, my leanings are to stay with them.
> However, my needs now require that I have good accelerated graphics,
> and I'm not sure what IBM offers in this regard in their laptops.
> 
> So, any advice?  If there is a thinkpad with accelerated graphics,
> how does it compare with say the best Dell?  Or should I just get a
> Dell?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Bill
> 
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