--- Benjamin Fritzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 January 2005 03:19, Rui Silva wrote: > > hello ppl > > > > i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. > > > > the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb > graphic card. R300 based > > > > How are the drivers for this graphic card?? > > > > Is ATI LInux driver good enough?? i'm not going to > play games. just > > the aplications commonly used. > > > > What about video out?? does it work?? > > > > the instalation is smooth or not?? > > > > share your experiences please, help me decide > > For Desktop Use you´ll be perfectly happy with Xorg > radeon drivers. They work > perfectly here on an Inspiron 8600 (Radeon 9600 Pro > Turbo, which is the same > chip with a lower frequency AFAIK). > > You´ll get: Video-Out support (Including Clone, > Xinerama and ext. only), > Dynamic Clock frequency, Working Hibernate/Suspend > to Ram (With > hibernate-script and vbetool). > > Basically everything works except DRI and TV-Out. > (Which work with the > ATI-Drivers). > > Feel free to contact me if you run into troubles. > I´ll happily share my > xorg.conf. > > Benny > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Hi. I have a similar question. My Laptop (Toshiba Satellite A70) does have SVideo Out, and I really need that to work. I saw on the ATI site that their propriatary Linux drivers were not for notebooks. Is that true, and is there an extra package (open source) I could emerge for Open Source support on SVideo? For the record, its an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000.
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