Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:36:52 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Aaron Lewis <aaron.lewis1989@gmail.com>, Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20100303153652.GE43700@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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According to Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> on Wed, 03/03/10 at 10:30: > > Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed > drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think). > > xorg's open xf86-video-ati driver supports ATI video cards, including > the Radeon Mobility cards in two notebooks I've tested. > > >Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video > >Card FBSD doesn't boot when i switched to ATI Video card. > > Are you saying the R400 has both integrated and discrete video cards? > Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential > customers details about their newer computers. I think yes. At least in my case. I have a T500 and it came with both integrated Intel video plus an additional ATI mini-card. I don't recall if there was an Nvidia video choice. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
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