From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 13:01:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB3216A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.netcabo.pt (smtp.netcabo.pt [212.113.174.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58E343FAF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:01:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brunomiguel@dequim.ist.utl.pt) Received: from dequim.ist.utl.pt ([213.22.171.17]) by smtp.netcabo.pt with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:55:53 +0100 Message-ID: <3F8DA7FD.1000507@dequim.ist.utl.pt> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:03:09 +0100 From: Bruno Afonso User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Oct 2003 19:55:54.0058 (UTC) FILETIME=[5779DAA0:01C39356] Subject: 3d support on new Centrino laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:01:55 -0000 Hello, I am thinking of buying a new laptop, like the hp x1010, nx7000 or maybe toshiba satellite Pro M10. All Hp/Compaq that I'm interested in come with Radeon 9200 videocards, and I think there's only linux drivers for agp gart support. No one has ported the intel drivers. Since ati doesn't make a videocard driver that includes agp gart support, I won't be able to have any 3d acceleration. Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 comes with a Geforce 420 Go video card and I think nvidia drivers may give me 3d acceleration with no major hickups. Am I thinking correctly about these two options? Can anyone suggest other notebooks in the same price range that may be a better choice? :) Finally, anyone using 3d acceleration daily on a centrino laptop? I kind of "need it" for structural molecular biology programs. It's not nice to work with pymol - for example - without 3d acceleration. I don't have any 3d acceleration support on my desktop either and it's a pain to work with... (ati videocard, no nforce2 agp gart support) -- Bruno Miguel Afonso Biological Eng. student. D.E.Q. @ I.S.T. - Portugal