[PlayerStage-Gazebo] Running gazebo on integrated graphics chipsets

[William U. <wil...@cs...>]

Hi all,

   I've just spent a while trying to get Gazebo running on a Dell  
desktop.  That machine has an integrated Intel i915 graphics chipset,  
and this doesn't seem to play nicely with gazebo on kubuntu.  The  
solution we ended up going with for that machine was buying a new  
NVidia graphics card and installing the NVidia glx drivers.

   I'm looking at getting a MacBook though, and I'd like to work with  
Gazebo on it.  Can anyone verify that gazebo will run (with graphics)  
on a MacBook?  (I'm particularly interested in a MacBook running  
linux... both booted directly, and maybe under VMWare/parallels from  
MacOS.)

   Is a MacBook pro going to be better for this?

Thanks for any feedback,

Will          :-}