[ale] Laptop blues

[Casey Allen Shobe]

ATI cards usually work damned well under linux.  You might try www.ati.com,
or running xf86config and looking for that card specifically.  And while it
isn't strictly required, AGP support in your kernel (I'd recommend using
2.4) would probably be good.

- Casey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonard Thornton" <Leonard at Intelis-inc.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Sergio Chaves" <sergio_chavess at hotmail.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Laptop blues


> According to Dell's website, the video is an ATI Mobility M4 4x AGP 128bit
> w/ 16Mb memory.  I'm not sure if there is a driver for this yet and I
don't
> know if there is a compatible driver for X yet.
>
>
> At 09:45 AM 6/4/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi Everybody.
> >
> >I recently purchased a Dell C800 and installed both Mandrake 8.0 and Red
> >Hat 7.1 obtaining the same results;
> >After booting and configuring X, the computer crashes (freezes) and the
> >screen starts fading away as if it was "frying" the video card.
> >Setup is not recognizing the card, putting it under the "other" options
> >and does not give me any more video card options to choose from (both RH
> >and MKE).
> >Any sugestions?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Sergio
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