Hallo, Ed Kelly hat gesagt: // Ed Kelly wrote:
All you guys are probably using better distros than me. I'm giving up on Fedora as of now, but I saw success stories on some of the Linux Laptop sites, so I decided to give it a go. But, alas, my graphics chips is not the Radeon x700 promised on the website, not even the x600 I saw in some postings. It is an Intel i915 shared-memory chip with no accelleration. Intel's driver did not work at all, so I was stuck with VESA at 1024x768. Pidip never worked even though it compiled (with ffmpeg cvs from the 7th of July 2004 by the way - I tried 6 dates...), but from searching the list it looks like it would never work anyway - xvinfo reports no display adaptors found.
I also have one of the newer Intel chips in my laptop, GM900, which I think, is the same as yours, just a different name. Here it is accelerated fine, but I use x.org. The driver for that card is quite new in X, and it's not supported in xfree86.
Before you sell it, I would recommend to test it with Ubuntu. Almost everything worked out of the box on my machine using Ubuntu, I just needed to tweek a bit with Wireless. It's important to also load the agpart module and some more stuff to get acceleration working. I don't know Fedora, so I cannot comment on how this works. I can just say that it is possible to make it work, and Ubuntu is one of the easiest and fastest way to get up to speed.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__