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I had no problems with an Intel 915. This was on the Dell Inspiron 1200, |
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which is a $600 laptop and works pretty well with linux. I can't |
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recommend that laptop because the keyboard is *terrible*. It has a funny |
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lip at the bottom end that drives me crazy. All the hardware support is |
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fine, though. |
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The X versions were recent (fedora core 3 installed perfectly first |
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time, then ran the update systems to bring uptodate), and gentoo 2005.1 |
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with full updates about a month back. With the gentoo system I did a |
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phase I, but everything was great - there's a driver, and it runs fine. |
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On gentoo I believe I was using framebuffer support, so no 3D. That |
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doesn't bother me - Grand Theft Auto doesn't run on Gentoo yet. And, on |
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gentoo, I was running command line only. |
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The one problem I had with the Inspiron 1200 was 16-bit cardbus support. |
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Apparently you have to figure out the memory exclude areas yourself. New |
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changes in the 2.6.13+ kernels are supposed to fix that --- but really, |
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most of my cardbus stuff is 32-bit anyway. |
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-brianb |
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Wojciech Polak wrote: |
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>What version of X do you use and how did you make it working |
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>>>Above all avoid Intel 8xx, 9xx graphics cards. They work as shit and you |
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>>>will spend weeks for configuring it (especially glx mode). But probably |
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>>>you don't have such concerns with Apple |
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>>FUD. I have mine working flawlessly. |
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