On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 Michael Perry wrote:
>I recently received a dell inspiron 7000 laptop from work and need some
>basic assistance. It ships with a ati rage LT series card and I would
>definitely like to get x working on its awesome 15" screen. It also
>ships with a 366 mhz pentium II processor and 128mb of ram. This laptop
>is a monster!! I read on suse's web site to use the mach 64 driver in x
>3.3.2. Have others done this using the ati rage lt cards? Any reports
>of problems? I would like to do SuSE 6 but want something on there now
>besides winblast 98. So I think I will order a second copy of suse 6
>but for now will play with suse 5.3 on it.
Michael, you have a couple of options:
1) I you have money to spare or if your company pays for it buy
the Xi-graphics Laptop Accelerated-X Display Server, version 4.1.
It has a specially Inspiron 7000 adapted and tested version
of drivers for the Ati Rage LT Pro 4MB/8MB card. (It was'nt
included in my box, I had to download them seperately from their
server: look for L4102.013.tar.gz).
They are excellent and fast with nice options.
(as they are still libc5 only do a 'minimal' install).
2) If you want a free solution go to Steve Hsieh's site:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
There you will find info on how to download and install patched
versions of the XFree Mach 64 server. (libc5 and libc6 versions
available) or, if you are using the 2.2.1 kernel, a solution using
a 'VESA Framebuffer'.
NB I read on the German SuSE site info about broken PCMCIA modules
in SuSE 6.0. (didn't work with some cards, you had to remove the
6.0 stuff and put in the stuff from SuSE 5.3 or something like
that. I don't know if this was only the German version and if it
has been fixed in the international version).
I was in a hurry so I didn't install SuSE 6.0, in case of trouble,
but RedHat 5.2, and I used the Xi-Graphics server.
Works perfectly, marvelous performance. I have the 333 Mhz one.
The 15" screen is indeed awesome. Enlightenment is magnificent
on it.
Alexander
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Alexander Volovics
Dept of Methodology & Statistics
Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL
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