Re: xorg +XGI Volari XP5

["Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yaroslav Tarasenko wrote:
>  Maybe not right place for this question, but i'll ask it either.
> I'm going to buy notebook and i've found an interesting one based on
> Transmeta CPU. But i'm yet in doubt because of videochip. It is XGI
> Volari XP5. Did anybody  used such hardware on bsd? I know that there's
> a linux driver for that chip, what chances to get this driver working on
> dfly?

Pretty slim. Besides, TransMeta has announced that they're going to stop 
developing CPU's, so it's a Crusoe, which is a bad performer (and on par 
with the Pentium-M where power usage is concerned). XGI's Volari series 
aren't the best of graphics cards either, with only the V8 Pro 
performing adequately when its price is concerned. I strongly advise you 
to go the Intel Pentium-M path, perhaps with the whole Centrino 
marketing stuff. Both the internal 855GM chipsets graphics adapter and 
the popular ATi and nVidia adapters work perfectly under Xorg.

Cheers,
		-- Thomas E. Spanjaard
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