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Date:      Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:37:49 +0200
From:      Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd@chillt.de>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        Bastian Rieck <bastian@tecroots.net>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Laptop recommendations?
Message-ID:  <4E06390D.4010700@chillt.de>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=mCPh7OGqF0mazAaJi7vZK7RXLjg@mail.gmail.com>
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> If you can find AMD graphics or nVidia graphics OTHER THAN OPTIMUS,
> you are fine

Unfortunately, this is no longer true from AMD. Evergreen GPUs have very 
rudimentary 2D support only. 3D support is in the drivers but requires 
KMS. Although KMS is being worked on, I believe it will be for Intel 
GPUs only at first. So 3D support for newer AMD GPUs is a way off still :(.

- Bartosz



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