Re: [utah-glx-users] Which notebook chipset?

[Joshua S. <jos...@cs...>]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 01:53:59AM +0200, Andreas Ehliar wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:35:05AM -0600, Joshua Shagam wrote:
> > Hi, I'm in a position where soon I'll be able to get a notebook for my
> > research.  Since my research involves 3D programming, obviously I'd want
> > something with decent OpenGL support under Linux.  Does anyone have any
> > advice as to which graphics chipset to get?  I'd prefer something with
> > hardware stencil support and a decent fillrate.  It's my understanding that
> > the Rage 128 comes in a notebook version... how good is utah-glx's Rage 128
> > support?
> 
> Quite bad. Let me quote our web page:
> "The Rage 128 is not supported"

Well, that only answers my last question. :) I was mostly wondering which
3D chipset would be best suited for a Linux laptop, regardless of whether I
go with utah or DRI.

> 
> Take a look at dri.sourceforge.net instead.
> 
> regards
> Andreas Ehliar

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