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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:48:28 +0400
From:      "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To:        dwinner-lists@att.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Display: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Message-ID:  <cb5206420606241048w413e8754o296cc60cf3848085@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <449C152E.8050908@att.net>
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On 6/23/06, dw <dwinner-lists@att.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are about to buy new Thinkpads (T60's), and will be running FreeBSD
> 5.5 or 6.2 (probably 6.2) on them.
>
> The ones I've spec'd out have the the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
> 950 as its video adapter -- does anybody have any input on these? Will
> they work? I'd hate to have 7 new thinkpads show up and find out that we
> can't run X because of this.
>
> There are similar T60's available that ship w/ ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
> cards, but they all seem to be heavier and shorter on battery life, and
> the other folks here put battery life and weight as the #1 items on
> their wish lists before I started to spec them out, so that leans me
> towards the ones with the Intel graphics card.

This is what Google says:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Media_Accelerator_950

Looks like xorg does it all for you.

OTOH I remember my friend moaning about problems with
newer intel graphics and Solaris 10. I hope that's not relevant.



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