[LAU] Support for RME HDSPe laptop expresscard

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 18:59 -1000, david wrote:
> Brent Busby wrote:
> 
> > Note:  I *strongly* prefer something with an ATI video chipset.  My 
> > experience has been that going with anything else on Linux is begging 
> > for some kind of pain.
> 
> Hmmm, my son-in-law is going through all kinds of pain trying to get his 
> ATI video card to work with Linux. In fact, he's replacing it with an 
> NVidia card ...
> 
> For laptops, the Intel video chipset seems to be working with recent 
> distros. I have neither recent Intel hardware nor a recent distro, so 
> can't help there.
> 
Isn't it ATI which is asking for all kinds of pain on linux? At least
with their closed-source drivers...

For open source since you'd be using the open-source anyway, 2D on
nvidia with neouveau is pretty good, and intel would be good as well.