From: Jo Mantelers (jo.mantelers++at++crystalinteractive.com)
Date: 11/01/2001 00:09:02
We run it on a Dell Inspiron with GeForce2Go, and indeed very satisfactory.
The only unsolved problem we got is to get a projector connected to the
laptop: we can't get the VGA connector to output a proper signal at any
res/freq. Did anybody succeed?
Jo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Housel" <bryan++at++7thposition.com>
To: "William Sherman -Visualization" <wsherman++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc: <info-performer++at++sgi.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Laptop for Performer
> > What kind of experience have people in pfLand had? I know the pfTeam
> > carries around a laptop for demos, and if they've upgraded recently,
> > would be interested in knowing what they currently favor.
>
> We run Performer on a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S402.. It has an nVidia
> Geforce2Go in it and runs Performer really well..
>
> The hardest part is getting XFree86 to run with hardware acceleration,
> but nVidia's site was pretty helpful in setting up the drivers on Linux..
>
> I haven't used any laptops with the ATI Mobile Radeon, but i'd expect
> that they would work well too, IF you can get drivers that work on Linux..
>
> Bryan
>
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