Hi there!
I'm looking for some mobile personal development medium. I wish to draw,
code some media and recently - to learn simple 3D stuff. PureDyne seems
to be suited best for this kind of activity. This is how I got into
troubles.
I have Thinkpad X31, it comes with Radeon Mobility GPU (7000 i believe,
16MB RAM) - it always runs fine on radeon and ati open drivers. It comes
without optical drive.
I installed puredyne latest release on pendrive via DVD ISO and VM (boot
VM with iso, stick in pendrive while it is booting, use live scripts to
make liveUSB and finally shrinking ext2 partition so that I have 1,3 GB
space of my 3,7GB pendrive avaliable for XP)
Now what is happening:
whenever I try to enable composite in XFCE - I'm getting shattered
screen (heavily blended coctail, nothing is visible there). Fortunately
after pressing space, thus disabling the composite, everything comes
back to operational state.
Blender window looks the same, it just covers part of the screen.
Whenever I run Wings3D - it claims:
Failed to find any suitable OpenGL mode.
Make sure that OpenGL drivers are installed.
And segfaults in the very same moment or hangs whole system, so that
hard reset is needed.
Wings issue may or may not be related to the other two. Blender and
composite shaff looks the same to me.
As far as I understand there is some package lacking or some
misconfigured things that mess up my graphics card. DRI?
glxgears are rendered fine, GLX looks enabled.
I have last working copy of xorg.conf from Debian Squeeze, but i
disbelieve that using dpreciated configuration methods are elegant
enough and compatible in this brand new, fancy circumstances.
Using it also brings up some wacom tablet issues, which I believe to be
the reason of dropping static xorg configuration, so its the last thing
I wish to try.
Any clues what might go wrong here?
I haven't done much, I'm not affraid of starting from scratch.
Cheers,
Luke
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