[ltp] Buying a T41p

[André Wyrwa]

Hi,

> In my experience, some of the ATI laptop chips don't want to drive
> a DVI display at 1600x1200.  If you have one of those chips, some of the
> Windows drivers revs just won't let you go past 1280x1024.  Some will, and
> you can force Linux to, but you get little green speckles scattered
> throughout the image (some pixels are bright green inappropriately, and
> may switch between their proper color and bright green or just stay fixed
> at bright green).  Switch to VGA, and the problem goes away.  This
> definitely seemed to affect the T30, and I think it happened on my T40p,
> but to be honest it's been a while since I tried.  We kept hoping a driver 
> release would fix it for the T30 but it never seemed to.

sounds like what's referred to elsewhere as pixel fireworks? If so it
should only appear in overlay mode (aka video an directx) and should be
fixable by switching off fastwrite in the driver.

However, i never heard of the resolution problems anywhere. But i think
i'll get the thing within the next two days and will see if it works
with my radeon.

André.