Re: 3D and Laptop

[Chris <chris@starforge.co.uk>]

> principles and suffer nVidia's binary-only drivers (which actually work
> quite well in areas related to OpenGL programming 


Just a note in case anyone here doesn't know it already: when using the 
NVidia drivers with an AGP card in an Athlon or Duron system you more
or less definately have to add

mem=nopentium

to the kernel boot options. If you do not do this the stability of your 
system will be drastically reduced, often requiring hard resets to correct 
lock-ups. References:

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-21-001-20-NW-KN
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-24-014-20-NW-KN
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-28-004-20-NW-KN


> [My new GeForce-4 Ti 4600 is **amazing** - 128Mb of on-board memory...Mmmmm!]


They are impressive aren't they (I've got one of the Creative 3D Blaster 
Ti4600 boards, weird heatsinks those things have!). I can certainly tell the 
difference coming form a GeForce2MX!

Chris
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