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On Sun Jul 09, 2006 at 04:57:43PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:

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> Hallo,

> oz hat gesagt: // oz wrote:

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> > I have sympathy for a new notebook with AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core

> > cpu. It would open some new possibilities, like virtualization

> > (pacifica, xen etc.), pure AMD64 Debian arch, other 32-bit OS' and -

> > and that is the question - good realtime-audio performance?

>

> I would say be careful with AMD laptops and Linux. Intel machines tend

> to be much better supported because there are open source drivers for

> the other parts inside these machines like WLAN, gfx card (if it's

> Intel) etc. while AMD laptops often use NVidia chipsets and gfx cards

> or similar stuff by ATi for which you need to install binary drivers

> sometimes, that may mess up other things like power management in

> strange ways. 64bit isn't that important for audio anyways. Getting a

> laptop to run flawlessly is hard enough, don't make it harder on

> yourself by buying hardware without open source drivers. 

my ATI IXP based AMD64 works flawlessly on linux. even 3d accel is supported with the open drivers after hacking a line into drm_pciids.txt
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> Ciao

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