[plug] Big Gun needed for X battle

[Tim Bowden]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:32, Ryan wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:23, Tim Bowden wrote:
> > Being a laptop with an inbuilt screen and a video out for a monitor, I 
> > suspect this accounts for the two entries in lspci for video adaptors. 
> > Anyone able to confirm/ deny this?
> 
> The two radeon 'heads' on my Laptop have the same PCI ID, that's not to
> say yours should, what you said sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
> M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
> 
> With regards to your issues you may want to scan through the archives
> here http://insue.com/pipermail/linux-sony/   A lot of Sony laptops (but
> not mine) have i810 video and in general it seems fiddly - most getting
> acceleration going though, not basic X.  If you want my evolution
> archives of the list for the last 12 months, let me know :)
> 
> As mentioned before, you'll probably have to have the relevant DRM
> module compiled in the kernel, i810 is in all recent 2.4 releases, and
> then blow it away with an x86 binary update from dri.sourceforge.net,
> specifically the releases here: http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/
> 
> Ryan
> 


Thanks for this Ryan,  I'l follow it up and see how I go.

Tim

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