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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo Wiki |
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> which shows relatively good hardware compatibility, except for the radeon card |
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> which is now an older offering: |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Studio_XPS_16 |
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> The current spec on the UK Dell website shows 1GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4670 (see |
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> below). |
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> PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 720QM (1.60Ghz, 6MB cache) |
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> LCD: Black Leather back cover : 15.6" (inch) Truelife 1080p Full HD WLED Edge |
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> to Edge Display |
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> MEMORY: 4096MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x2048] |
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> HARD DRIVE: 500GB (7,200rpm) Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive |
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> PRIMARY BATTERY: 9-cell 85Whr Lithium Ion battery |
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> OPTICAL DRIVE: Internal Blu-Ray ROM (Blu-Ray read, DVD and CD read & Write) |
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> Optical Drive |
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> GRAPHICS CARD: 1GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4670 graphics card |
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> WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY: Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g) |
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> BLUETOOTH: Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Module |
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> According to these links the RadeonHD driver is experimental: |
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> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeon |
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> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd%3Aexperimental_3D |
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> |
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> Does anyone have experience with this driver, or better yet, this laptop? |
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> Shall I buy or shall I shy away from it? |
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I don't have one (I wish!) but after a quick googling it looks like |
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ATI Catalyst drivers support the graphics chip and the wireless is a |
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BCM4312 chipset. I think the rest of it should be pretty standard |
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stuff. |
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