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Re: gEDA-user: PCB very slow on new laptop



On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:42 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 09:34 +0000, Thomas Oldbury wrote:
> > I'll have to figure out how to do that. It does has 4 GB system memory
> >    though, don't know how much video RAM it will allocate.
> 
> With anything reasonably recent, it will allocate what it needs - the
> memory pool is completely shared. With Ubuntu 10.10, you should be fine.
> I do run a later kernel with mine though (the one from Natty) - as it
> has better support for these chips.
> 
> What video chip do you have? It may be that it is a new enough chip that
> you need to get a more recent kernel and/or video driver.

Answering my own question - it seems it will be an Ironlake die in an
"Arrandale" series chipset.

Fairly new, but it isn't a Sandy-bridge, which might still have some
issues with the drivers.

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Peter Clifton

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