Re: Laptop for Molecular Dynamics

From: Sabuj Pattanayek (sabuj.pattanayek_at_vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 17:52:27 CDT

Hi,

The ATI linux driver is plagued with problems. You may experience hangs
and crashes on logout and VT switches, high CPU utilization during
normal desktop usage, and in general poor performance with applications
that use opengl:

http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13
http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37
http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=123
http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239

The entire list:

http://ati.cchtml.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=

I don't know much about the intel 95x and 96x graphics devices under
xorg, all I can tell you is that it took until xorg v7.0RC (currently at
v7.2) and Mesa v6.5 (currently at v6.5.3) for the intel 855 device in my
laptop to have equivalent opengl performance under linux as when I would
boot to windows. See also http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel .

HTH,
Sabuj Pattanayek

Deepangi Pandit wrote:
> Hi Sabuj:
> Could you please let me know more about problems with ATI graphics. I
> was planning to buy Lenono Thinkpad T60p which has System graphics as
> ATI Mobility Fire GL V5250 256MB but now after your post I am not
> sure. As I mentioned earlier I plan to use Windows and Linux on the

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