Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
This is a VGA adapter integated on some laptop motherboards (like the IBM ThinkPad 600E). It usually has 2MB of memory and does 2D just fine. It can usually mirror to an extrenal display well.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.20-8
Distribution:
RedHat Linux 9.0
Under RedHat Linux this card works fine (IBM ThinkPad 600E). Using the display configuration tool I had to first tell it that I have a 1024x768 resolution LCD because the installer did not figure it out.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.5
Distribution:
Arch Linux 0.6
It is 100% compatible: the card itself is not very good, but thats a hardware related problem. It's working very nice for 2D in my Dell Latitude laptop.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.26
Distribution:
Slackware
This card is in my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop and it can play DVD's with mplayer, which is not bad in my opinion. As for getting the card going: in slackware I manually edit the xorg.conf configuration file in /etc/X11, because the default is VESA framebuffer mode.
In SuSE Linux it all just worked immediately after installation.
To improve performance, I would select 16bit colour instead of 24bit (even though that depth is supported by the card).
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.10
Distribution:
Debian Sid
Good..... Rather slow but still good. It is on my Sony PCG-F430 laptop. it was 100% compatable with my install. It needed a little tweaking to play DVDs as mentioned below but other then that it is fine.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
To play DVDs with this card in X11 this line MUST be added to the XF86 config file under the display device:
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.11-6mdk
Distribution:
Mandriva 10.2
I am able to go into X mode using the detected drivers; however, the highest resolution allowed is 800x600 24bit.
I installed the OS on a Dell Lattitude LS400 and it does do the job; however, the icons look pretty huge for my taste :(
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.13
Distribution:
VectorLinux
the card seems to work ok in 2d mode, but the acceleration with the stock drivers is crap. glxgears returns a pathetic 75fps.
i havent been able to find any drivers for it either, even after scouring google for hours.
its not bad, but if you have the option of getting a laptop without it......say no to neomagic
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 6
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.31
Distribution:
Slackware 10.2
Works fine on an Omnibook 900A with Xorg-6.8.2
Loads vesa driver @ too high of a resolution by default. Manually editing xorg.conf for 800x600@24 resolution worked. With the vesa driver, got some strange problems with dimming the X window after switching from it to a console, and back to X. No problems at all after replacing "vesa" driver with "neomagic" driver.
This was all for regular old 2D graphics. No agpgart or OpenGL or fancy 3D stuff.
Distribution: debian with bits of everything stuck on it
Posts: 114
Rep:
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.15-27-686
Distribution:
kubuntu
Its crap :) does play dvd's ok so for a poxy 2.5MB 2D card its not the bad. If anyone knows any kind of workaround to get DRI to do something I would love to hear it.
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.
