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On 07/25/2010 07:00 PM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility
> Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect
> Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable?

Suspend should work.  3D however is too slow.

You'd be better of using the proprietary driver, especially since on a 
notebook you want to have increased battery life; the open source driver 
doesn't provide good power management.