Hi,
I just bought the above named Laptop and was wondering if there is anything I need to watch out for besides not having 3D acceleration because they use ATI grafic cards? Maybe the built in wireless card might not work too.
Other then that can anyone think of anything else?
Thnx
Robert Spangler wrote:
Hi,
I just bought the above named Laptop and was wondering if there is anything I need to watch out for besides not having 3D acceleration because they use ATI grafic cards? Maybe the built in wireless card might not work too.
CentOS 4.2 has Xorg 6.8 which in turn has some 3d acceleration for the r200/r250 series. I don't know which card is in the T42, my T40 has an ATI 9200 (Mobility M9) - which works accelerated under Xorg 6.8.
Forget Doom3 and the like, Quake 3 works reasonably, the 3d screensavers do well also.
Ralph
CentOS 4 works good on the box. Uses the ATI Rage Mobility video chipset (ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]). Have the "radeon" driver that Anaconda set up running.
The wireless will work with the ipw2200 drivers and firmware (http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/). Otherwise I suppose you could use ndiswrapper.
Only thing I haven't got working well is suspend. You might look at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki for some other ideas and info. -Alan
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Robert Spangler wrote:
Hi,
I just bought the above named Laptop and was wondering if there is anything I need to watch out for besides not having 3D acceleration because they use ATI grafic cards? Maybe the built in wireless card might not work too.
CentOS 4.2 has Xorg 6.8 which in turn has some 3d acceleration for the r200/r250 series. I don't know which card is in the T42, my T40 has an ATI 9200 (Mobility M9) - which works accelerated under Xorg 6.8.
Forget Doom3 and the like, Quake 3 works reasonably, the 3d screensavers do well also.
Ralph
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