Re: Suggestion

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 12:00:32 EST

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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said:
> The Dell Latitude C840 (what I have) and the (AFAIK) Inspiron 8100
> both use the NVidia geForce4 Go graphics chipset, and apparently the
> posted patches to make nvidia's closed-source drivers work under 2.5
> have issues with ACPI on some platforms. Digging back, I only found
> like one message on the LKML archives that mentioned the nvidia
> drivers don't play nice with ACPI.

Note that you can buy replacement non-nVidia graphics cards for the I8x00
as spare parts fairly cheaply, and they're very easy to install.

-- dwmw2

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