12 Aug
2006
12 Aug
'06
4:59 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 07:05:27AM -0400, Stephen C. Daukas wrote:
The Aspire has 128meg ATI X1400 video card the others have the built in Intel Accel 950 chip
Not bad for the money... 1280 x 800 resolution strikes me as "different" though - perhaps for DVD wide screen?
I would pick the models with the built-in Intel Accel 950 chip or equivalent. There are open source 3D video accelerated drivers for those. You might need a little open source utility to set the VESA BIOS video resolution table for WXGA, though. I recently worked on one and had to get a program called "855resolution" or "915resolution", which runs at bootup. Xorg worked fine at 1400x1050 after that. http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/