On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Hi Jason! > > > > >Is there a driver for the ati radeon mobility for x 4.1? > > > >I set my notebook up using the radeon driver, but X dies complaining that > > > >there are no devices available. Switching the Device line to "Standard VGA" > > > >brings it up, but at vga16. > > > Wat kind of laptop do you have? > > Compaq presario 2700. > > I'm starting to think that cygwin might be my only option. > > I ordered a ThinkPad A30 with Radeon Mobility. On LinuxCare there is a > report on how to set up SuSE Linux an that laptop. > Wrong laptop and wrong distro, but they explain how to setup XFree by > hand from cvs: > > http://www.linuxcare.com/labs/certs/ibm/thinkpad/a30/suse72-config.epl > > If you find a working driver for a debian package it would be nice to > post that here. > Since I was responsible for the report for the A30, just a couple of notes about the cert report for the A30... I tested this with the latest version of SuSE quite a bit and there was one non-replicable error which occured often with default kernels the distributions provided.
After compiling X from CVS, the server would complain about "could not determine panel size" sometimes. I could not isolate this to a certain event; but often by compiling a newer kernel this would go away. In fact, I never saw this happen after compiling a new kernel on any of the distributions I tested. Also, if you have never compiled X from CVS, be prepared for a "funtime" (tm). On the A30, it took me almost 2 hours to get compiled on SuSE. Be sure you install bison and flex (lex) also. If you don't you will have a fatal compile-time error in X as it goes, and it does not "remember" where it was when it happened. So you have to start the whole process all over again. As a point in reference, take a look at the same report but a bit further down: http://www.linuxcare.com/labs/certs/ibm/thinkpad/a30/suse72-config.epl HTH. -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
