On Fri, February 4, 2005 9:38 am, Nick Rout said: > > On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:17:26 +1300 > Robert Himmelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ati Radeon 9600 Mobility. Ati does not supply any support for laptop > > Xorg does now have support for the mobility chips IIRC. I did some > research > on laptops at the end of last year, but did not buy so i may have this > wrong. However i thought Xorg 6.8 had support for some ATI mobility > stuff, and it was fairly new. > > >> cards and Yakumo has only (old) windows versions. The last time I >> experimentated with linux drivers (x86, Nvidia GForce 4 Ti 4200) I ended >> up 1D instead of 3D. Every time I tried to load the driver there was >> only one line on the screen left. > > luxury, the first computer i used had to be bootstrapped with a hex > keypad then loaded from hand fed punch cards or a paper tape reader. the > output was a row of led's until you got the os loaded, then you got a > teletype.
http://www.pdp11.org ??? Those were the days. burble burble... real computers... burble... youth of today... (: > > Anyway I look forward to successfully showing you gentoo (Nick crosses > fingers that he can successfully get this hardware working sweetly) > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
