[Nottingham] query on new laptop

[Michael Simms]

Yeah the MX440 is very much unsupported due to age these days on the 
commercial drivers. To be honest, you would quite likely get equal 
performance from the open source 3d drivers for nvidia for that age of 
card.

There ARE drivers on the nvidia site

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/content/license/driver_license.aspx?language=en&url=http://uk.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run

but I doubt they would compile against a modern kernel, as the kernel 
API changes way too regularly for driver interface stability if you ask 
me... They were last changed in 2007, so if you are happy with a 3 year 
old kernel, you should be OK, otherwise, I think you'll have to fiddle - 
probably a lot.

Michael Simms, CEO - Tux Games LTD
http://www.tuxgames.com

On 07/14/2010 11:18 AM, James of the Family Moore wrote:
> Well... I've just installed OpenSuSE 11.1 on a Dell
> threw-it-together-out-of-spare-parts (OK the base is an Inspiron 8200
> with a processor upgrade from a 1.2GHz Celeron to a Mobile P4 at 1.9GHz
> but everything else is out of different machines!), things just
> mysteriously worked. I wasn't expecting the wireless (Intel Pro/2100
> 3B/MIM2000 Centrino) to work out of the box, to be honest, and was
> pleasantly surprised to discover that in fact it does. Apart from 3D
> acceleration on the GF4 MX440 graphics which I hope to get running at
> some point (some help there maybe? Apparently the latest NVidia package
> doesn't support the chip...)
>
>
>
> On 14/07/2010 10:37, Michael Simms wrote:
>> My HP laptop worked first time installing Linux on it. Everything
>> 'just worked' including bluetooth, wifi, webcam, everything. I was
>> very pleasantly surprised. I'd always recommend their stuff at this
>> point.
>>
>> Michael Simms, CEO - Tux Games LTD
>> http://www.tuxgames.com
>>
>> On 07/13/2010 09:03 PM, stripes wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I am planning to get a new 64-bit laptop (prefer NVDIA graphics) and
>>> run ubuntu. What makes would you suggest? I prefer HP and Dell
>>> (have an XPS 1330 running lucid lynx) and have had experience with
>>> Acer (mixed) and Toshiba (not so good).
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> stripes
>>>
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