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@Fusspawn meant 600W. See this is how I got that 1KW thing in the first place. big numbers are better.

Wednesday, September 06 2006

openSUSE

As reaction on Vincent's blog entry about Dell Latitude D620. I have a Dell inspiron 6000 also with a i915 video chipset and never could get the native resolution on ubuntu (dapper), i knew about the 915resolution thing, but didn't want to invest any time into it, since it was working pretty good and native resolution was 1920x1200 and ubuntu got it to 18sumthingxsumthing and it looked ok albeit a bit stretched.

However i recently installed OpenSUSE (10.sumthing) on it and it worked on native resolution out of the box. Perhaps eft will also do this, but i just wanted to play around with Xgl a bit, but also wanted something that would just work without me having to tinker with it. So while i never was a big fan of SuSe linux i just wanted to see what had happened with it, and i was pleasantly surprised. Although hibernate and suspend are still not working, so perhaps i'll be trying eft in a few months to see if ubuntu can do it.

I have learned something though, there is no such thing as too high a resolution and scalable icons and text is a must have when your working with high resolutions. :)
Oh and Xgl kicks ass, and works just fine on a i915 video chipset. Although the redrawing of windows is a bit slow.