Quoting Vulpes Velox <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:09:54 -0500
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Quoting Vulpes Velox <[email protected]>:
>>
>> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:53:07 -0500
>> > [email protected] wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am seriously considering one, more than anything else for the
>> >> 15.4 inch screen with a resolution of 1920 X 1200, assuming that
>> >> I can get that out of XOrg. I want the resolution but don't
>> >> want a monster laptop. Apart from that the price seems ok with
>> >> 2G of memory, and a Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Dual-band Mini-Card
>> >> (DW1390) that should work someday ;) I assume that the
>> >> bluetooth will probably work and if not, no big deal.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance for any information or suggestions,
>> >
>> > From my experience getting that resolution out of Xorg will not
>> > be a issue at all. My suggestion is to go with a Nvidia chipset
>> > if you want decent graphics support. The ATI ones that are common
>> > lack 3d support. I am not sure how the generic Intel ones are for
>> > that, but been less than impressed with them under windows from
>> > what I have seen.
>> >
>> Thanks, Vulpes. Here I can't screw up dell doesn't give me an
>> option to change. It is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M 512MB
>> Turbocache, OpenGL (FX350M) which AFAICT is a 256M card and 256M
>> can be shared from RAM.
>
> No clue how well those work. When I got my Toshiba I made sure it
> was not turbocache since I wanted it for gaming as well. AFAIK it is
> supported, but you will most likely want to double check with the
> Nvidia driver docs. They include a list of supported chipsets in it.
>
Thanks, I found it in the nvidia port. Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA
Graphics Chips, as supported. Plus, I've never had a nvidia card not
work that I can remember.
Thanks again,
ed
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