GPL OK with laptops?

I am thinking about one of the Sony VAIO 300mhz laptop computers. Will GPL be playable on it? I know it likes 3dfx. Any PMCIA 3D cards that will work? Old big blocks run forever 67/427 Impala SS

Laptops inherently aren't good *** machines because the LCD display isn't all that great for the fast 3D graphics that most games use. Most laptops also use cheap chipset for their graphics and/or do not include any 3D support. Probably the laptop best suited for *** would be the Dell Inspiron 7000, which uses an ATI Rage Pro AGP chipset, which I believe has some sort of Glide/OpenGL support, and a 14.1" or 15" display.

If its the ATI Rage Pro then it will have Direct3D and OpenGL support. No other chipset besides the Voodoo/Banshee lines have Glide support.

And I don't think the Rage Pro even has OpenGL support. My friend has that exact machine and it simply won't run anything in OGL. Maybe he's doing it wrong, but I think those cards don't support it. > If its the ATI Rage Pro then it will have Direct3D and OpenGL support. No > other chipset besides the Voodoo/Banshee lines have Glide support.

It has OpenGL if you buy GLDirect from SicTech. See the specs http://www.scitechsoft.com/gld_hrdw.html Just be sure that the Dell has at least 4 Mb on the video card. After that you will need the OpenGL patch from Papyrus. Nice racing, Roberto

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>And I don't think the Rage Pro even has OpenGL support. My friend has >that exact machine and it simply won't run anything in OGL. Maybe he's >doing it wrong, but I think those cards don't support it. >> If its the ATI Rage Pro then it will have Direct3D and OpenGL support.

No >> other chipset besides the Voodoo/Banshee lines have Glide support.

wrote... I've been looking forward to the day when flat LCD's around 19" become reasonable. You don't think that will be good for ***? D.Cook

OpenGL ICD for the Rage Pro is downloadable from ATI at: [link lost in import: /***/fixes/opengl.html]

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>And I don't think the Rage Pro even has OpenGL support. My friend has >that exact machine and it simply won't run anything in OGL. Maybe he's >doing it wrong, but I think those cards don't support it. >> If its the ATI Rage Pro then it will have Direct3D and OpenGL support. No >> other chipset besides the Voodoo/Banshee lines have Glide support.