[ltp] some questions about linux and thinkpad

[Osho GG]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:51:11 -0800, Osho GG <oshogg@gmail.com> wrote:
> ATI's cards have very bad linux drivers. Nvidia has much bad drivers

OOps.. I meant Nvidia has much *better* drivers.. bad must have been
ingrained in my brain because I am stuck with ATI's graphics card :).

> for linux. So, if you care about 3d acceleration try to get a laptop
> with Nvidia cards.
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> IBM Laptops (T42p is my recommendation) are the best  but
> unfortunately they have ATI's drivers.
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> Regarding wireless: Intel's IPW 2200 is working great for me with the
> drivers from ipw2200.sf.net .
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> 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.
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> Osho
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> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:03:49 +0100, Fiz V=E1zquez <vud1@sindominio.net> w=
rote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > i am interested in buy a thinkpad laptop (for example r50 or r51 one) t=
o
> > use only with linux. I would like to answer some questions before buy
> > it.
> >
> > * 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?
> >
> > thats all. :) if you have more advise for me it will be wellcome.
> >
> > thanks for all
> >
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> Osho
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Osho