From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-64026-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HoLHo-0003CM-VB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 15:19:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4GFILhw016758; Wed, 16 May 2007 15:18:21 GMT Received: from psmtp09.wxs.nl (psmtp09.wxs.nl [195.121.247.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4GFB3Xr006071 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 16 May 2007 15:11:03 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by psmtp09.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JI500I1833GXX@psmtp09.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 17:02:04 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:01:17 +0200 From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring In-reply-to: <c52221f0705160512m769bbd73p8b7dac0d8c289374@mail.gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200705161701.17836.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <c52221f0705160512m769bbd73p8b7dac0d8c289374@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 770ff29a-57d2-4e0f-b10a-868fa86ee6d5 X-Archives-Hash: afcfa4fd5f82c0a66937a7dd1afacf41 Devon Miller wrote: > I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. > > I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded > disk. It mostly works, but the VIA graphics chips means no > compositing, no beryl, and anything OpenGL is slow. If OpenGL acceleration is a must, you really have only one choice: get a laptop with an Intel integrated graphics chip, GMA 950. It's the only chip with an open source driver that is supported by the vendor. It's working pretty well here. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list