Nick Rout wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:17:26 +1300
Robert Himmelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ti 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.
Was it this one Nick?:
http://www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/museum/altair.htm
No, you've answered elsewhere. Sounds like a similar interface though.
Anyway I look forward to successfully showing you gentoo (Nick crosses
fingers that he can successfully get this hardware working sweetly)
FWIW Robert; I have setup a plain ATI Radeon 345 laptop under SuSE &
Ubuntu for myself, and a 9000 Mobility with SuSE for a client. In
neither case have I messed around with acceleration or a non-default X,
or seen any stability problems.
Cheers,
Rik
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