Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:53:33 -0700 From: Richard Neese <r.neese@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop Message-ID: <200704302053.33476.r.neese@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7b0c7ad70704301624x7898ce28rf36e6d7b925827f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <7b0c7ad70704301624x7898ce28rf36e6d7b925827f2@mail.gmail.com>
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the ATI driver should work fine. I have the same chipset on my laptop and the ATI driver works On Monday 30 April 2007 16:24:59 David Kalliecharan wrote: > Hello everyone! > I seem to run into a snag, I am going to buy a laptop for school work as I > my Laptop currently has become useless as I need to use Matlab/octave for > developing and opengl is a requirement for 3d mapping for creating visuals > (I would like to have Opengl to take advantage of this), the Ati driver > does not work, in a previous e-mail I found out that my chipset was no > longer supported by Ati (xpress 200m) > > The new laptop will have an Nvida Graphics cards (geforce go 6150 not much > better in specs but will do the job I need) The problem is that all of the > laptops that at this time are supporting Nvidia in my area all seem to be > AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual cores and AMD Turion 64 mobile. > > The question is does FreeBSD have any problems with the install on Dual > core using the i386 install disk? If not what about setting the make.conf > file for compiling Applications? I am used to using gentoo linux to do > things and am having a hard time finding this information, I know its > similar but I want to make sure its up and running properly, also Does > anyone know how the Geforce Go 6150 runs using the laest 1.0-9xxx series > driver in the ports tree?. So if anyone can point me in the right direction > of installing FreeBSD within the next few days on a Dual Core (if there any > snags or not using FreeBSD-6.2 stable) I would greatly appreciate it!
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