On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Mike Hoye wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:08:55PM +0000, ed stuckems wrote: > > In particular, what should I be looking for to ensure > > that I can run linux, and is there anything that I should watch out for > > because it will preclude the use of Linux (specific hardware that isn't > > supported, etc.) > > If it's possible, I'd try to buy something with Nvidia graphics hardware. > > The ATI linux support situation is pretty dismal, especially on laptop > hardware. Is that really true? ATI distributes drivers (as does Nvidia) if you're willing to run binary drivers. As far as I know only really high-end ATI cards aren't supported in direct rendering mode using the open source DRM/DRI interface (> 9600, I think) mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE