A short and yet incomplete manufacturer survey of graphics chipsets used in mobile computers.
ATI
provides a
Linux FAQ(http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html).
There is also a
mailing list(http://alexandria11.alexsrv11.com/mailman/listinfo/ati-mobililty-linux_staticnull.org)
for ATI Mobility Users. Please join the list
if you have a laptop with an ATI
Mobility Radeon graphics chipset.
"...a developer's kit to support video hardware decoding for Linux on their Rage 128 and Rage 128 Pro chips. ...confirms ATI's pursuit to become 'the Linux community's Number One graphics vendor'." COMPLETE STORY(http://news.tucows.com/ext2/00/03/articles/ext203022000.shtml).
ATI Radeon Linux How-To(http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atilinuxhowto/).
NVIDIA
provides
binary Linux and BSD drivers(http://www.nvidia.com/linux).
See also the Minion(http://www.minion.de/) project for
current drivers, working with Linux Kernel
2.6 (x86, x86-64).
For Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS)
Linux drivers see the
resources by Thomas Winischhofer(http://www.winischhofer.net).