Users of Opengl and Linux avoid the chipsets ATI xpress200 and

xpress1100. I am owner of a xpress1100 on a Acer laptop Aspires 5100, I

had disappointment to note that this chipset does not manage or very

little the Opengl, the consequences? Under Windows the plays or the

applications calling upon Opengl for the 3D function very badly or not

at all, and under Linux you do not have the 3D desktop nor the

majority of the applications 3D . This existing problem with the

xpress200 was to be fixed by the xpress1100 but these two chipsets use

the Graphics Processor Unit X300se which is X300 cut down by ATI(half

pipe, and band-width very reduced memory)which on paper is ½ to 1/3

slower than the X300 of origin but the other problem is that X300 in

fact is already not an excellent Graphics Processor Unit, but actually

the problem really does not come from the Graphics Processor Unit, the fact is that ATI

officially does not support the opengl part of this chip. These

chips at low prices equip each days more and more laptop and PC but

ATI refuses to support them. Why? At this time no solution is thus

offered if you use Linux or an Opengl applications or game under

Windows do not buy machines equipped with these chipsets, because the

answer which you will receive will be, you have for what you pay...

Users of Opengl and Linux avoid the chipsets ATI xpress200 and

xpress1100. I am owner of a xpress1100 on a Acer laptop Aspires 5100, I

had disappointment to note that this chipset does not manage or very

little the Opengl, the consequences? Under Windows the plays or the

applications calling upon Opengl for the 3D function very badly or not

at all, and under Linux you do not have the 3D desktop nor the

majority of the applications 3D . This existing problem with the

xpress200 was to be fixed by the xpress1100 but these two chipsets use

the Graphics Processor Unit X300se which is X300 cut down by ATI(half

pipe, and band-width very reduced memory)which on paper is ½ to 1/3

slower than the X300 of origin but the other problem is that X300 in

fact is already not an excellent Graphics Processor Unit, but actually

the problem really does not come from the Graphics Processor Unit, the fact is that ATI

officially does not support the opengl part of this chip. These

chips at low prices equip each days more and more laptop and PC but

ATI refuses to support them. Why? At this time no solution is thus

offered if you use Linux or an Opengl applications or game under

Windows do not buy machines equipped with these chipsets, because the

answer which you will receive will be, you have for what you pay...