Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released [LWN.net]

Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released

Posted Mar 25, 2007 3:34 UTC (Sun) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released by aotheoverlord
Parent article: Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released

"I am running Ubuntu 6.10 on a lap-top with precisely that resolution.
I purchased it from R-cubed. (www.shoprcubed.com). No complaints."

Um, but it's using a proprietary driver, not intel, jast ast the original poster said, right? The only such example I see on their site has an ATI card.

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Ubuntu 7.04 Beta released

Posted Mar 26, 2007 22:19 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

The one I found on their website is a 17 inch laptop with 1440 x 900 display.

It uses the X700 ATI chipset, which is a R400 generation chipset.

Linux has decent enough free software drivers for 3D and 2D accelerated support for r200, r300, and r400 generation chipsets (r300 and r400 being pretty much the the same chipsets and use the same R300 driver). The only major exceptions are those low-end chipsets that use a sort of '256 meg video memory with 64megs on card' were they have a hybrid shared memory sceme.

I think the x700 should be supported, ok, but I haven't tried it myself. I had a x850 that worked well with R300 DRI and radeon drivers.

The r500 cards are not supported in any way, either by 3d or by 2d with open source drivers.

You can tell which cards are the R500 generation by their numbering sceme.. If they have numbers higher then x1000 then they are r500 generation.

But personally I'd still prefer the Intel as they are much easier to find, r400 generation cards are increasingly difficult to find in decent prices.