Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:42:38 -0400 From: "Brian J. Conway" <bconway@wpi.edu> I couldn't be more happy with my Dell Inspiron 8000 that I bought about 11 months ago (before the nVidia chipset was available, unfortunately). They now offer the choice between ATI or nVidia chipsets, and I couldn't speak more highly of Dell both for personal use and the large number we have at work. I'm using the 32MB version of the Rage 128 chipset, and it does DRI as well as I can expect it to, though I don't use it for much gaming beyond TuxRacer. My $0.02. Have you succeeded in making it (8K, which is what I have too) successfully resume from suspend with DRI turned on? If I turn on DRI (using either XF 4.1 or 4.2), the machine will not successfully resume from either suspend or hibernate to disk. I'm running SuSE 7.3. Overall, I really like the 8K also. The fit and finish is a bit subpar, and it's certainly a big, heavy machine, but in general it's very stable. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@uunet.uu.net Project lead for Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton

I have a Dell 4000 notebook with the Rage128 chipset and 1400x1050 capable display (sxga+??). I have occasioanlly encountered odd behavior of the xserver locking up and the display washing out when I try to logout of Gnome. This behavior does not occur every time though. I think possibly an X server config problem or perhaps I need to install an updated version of XFree86 4.x. Could you post a copy of your X config and XFree86 version? Although I wish I had the nVidia chipset now. Thanks, Chris On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 10:42, Brian J. Conway wrote:

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Anyone have any recommendations for a linux laptop with 3D hardware acceleration? I'm not particularly interested in the closed source nvidia drivers so I'm leaning towards the Radeon 7500.

I couldn't be more happy with my Dell Inspiron 8000 that I bought about 11 months ago (before the nVidia chipset was available, unfortunately). They now offer the choice between ATI or nVidia chipsets, and I couldn't speak more highly of Dell both for personal use and the large number we have at work. I'm using the 32MB version of the Rage 128 chipset, and it does DRI as well as I can expect it to, though I don't use it for much gaming beyond TuxRacer. My $0.02.

Brian J. Conway bconway@wpi.edu

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