Re: [LAU] Support for RME HDSPe laptop expresscard

From: Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Jan 16 2010 - 07:36:00 EET

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 18:59 -1000, david wrote:
> Brent Busby wrote:
>
> > Note: I *strongly* prefer something with an ATI video chipset. My
> > experience has been that going with anything else on Linux is begging
> > for some kind of pain.
>
> Hmmm, my son-in-law is going through all kinds of pain trying to get his
> ATI video card to work with Linux. In fact, he's replacing it with an
> NVidia card ...
>
> For laptops, the Intel video chipset seems to be working with recent
> distros. I have neither recent Intel hardware nor a recent distro, so
> can't help there.
>
Isn't it ATI which is asking for all kinds of pain on linux? At least
with their closed-source drivers...

For open source since you'd be using the open-source anyway, 2D on
nvidia with neouveau is pretty good, and intel would be good as well.

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