Hi, I have a gr7/k (similar to gr214*, gr114* and others) > Hi, > [snip] > My machine has a 16.1 inch screen with a physical resolution of > 1600x1200. The ads say it has a ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500. Is there any > other machine like that?
try an lspci -vv and see the exact model of the VGA adapter. I have a Mobility M6 LY advertised as a radeon mobility. I have to use X4.2 to use the ati driver (previous versions don't support this model). the vesa driver should work fine with X4.1 (no accelleration) > > Did anybody have this laptop and installed woody on it? How to > activate sound and acpi? How to activate an external mouse, the cd > writer, dvd player and usb? ACPI: you have to compile your own patched kernel (www.kernel.org and www.sourceforge.net/projects/acpi) to get a more complete acpi implementation. If some devices can't get an irq (and that's why you can't get sound, usb, etc.) you should really try the latest acpi patch. sound: lspci -vv should tell which driver you need to compile cdwriter: take a look at some how to at www.tldp.org (you have to compile ide-scsi emulation etc.) dvdplayer: try xine or mplayer external mouse: usb mouse? ps2 mouse? I think there are lots of howto's HTH, mattia
