pix and i got X up on this box but from memory hardware accelleration was hard for some reason [although we both use a range of hw accellerated cards on other machines under linux]. our inability to install may have had something to do with the fact we were in a remote croatian village at the time, with one dialup modem feeding the entire town.
i use a radeon 7500 on my dell i8k with the < http://dri.sf.net > with amazing performance [often faster than win32 and the same card]. this is your best bet with the dri.
ps don't buy the gericom if it rattles, the one we worked with did.
cheers,
julian
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:47:17 +0100 Andre Schmidt andre@vju-tv.net wrote:
//hi, // //i'm about to buy my very first notebook :) and saw this on media-markt //(germany) // //http://shop.mediamarkt.de/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId... // //it's a GERICOM Masterpiece 2440 //- P4 2,4GHz //- 512MB //- ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, 64MB //- etc... // //my only worry is that does linux (i prefer suse) and PD+GEM work on this //machine. specially that ATI chip. on my desktop with geforce2mx440 i didn't //get the 3D drivers from nvidia to work :(...audio ist mir wurst, because i //will buy an usb/firewire audio interface later... // //so, if any1 has/heard this machine with linux+pd+gem, let me know... //i will be buying it tomorrow, a special sonday here in frankfurt, the shops //are open form 13 to 18 :)))) // //cheers //-andre //ps. i'm pretty sure that pd+gem will work on windows with this machine, but i //WANT linux... // //_______________________________________________ //PD-list mailing list //PD-list@iem.kug.ac.at //http://iem.kug.ac.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list // //