On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:03, Filippos Klironomos wrote: > > > > There's no choice for the Mobility 9000 IGP, at least not specifically. > > No matter what I choose in "Display settings" after a reboot it always > > ends up back at "VESA driver (generic)". Anyone had success with getting > > better video support working? > > > > Mobility IGP 340M on a presario2500 here. I have the same problem but > since I don't use the laptop for heavy gaming and such haven't > bothered to much about it. This might be helpful: So far no luck. I don't play games either, but I would like to get a higher res than 800x600, which is all I get with the VESA driver. Don't know if the oe I have is a 340M or not. Is this what you have?: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5835 I'm trying the link you sent but so far no luck. In Xorg.0.log I get: (EE) No devices detected. > > http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/presario_2500_vo.php > > > > The sound is also a problem. After installation I played the test sound > > and it played, but was extremely choppy. Now once I login, I don't get > > any sound at all. If I go to Soundcard Detection I see the configuration > > for the card, but hitting "Play test sound" yields no sound and > > immediately asks me if I heard the test sound. > > > > do an 'lspci' and see what your sound card is. Mine is ALi M5451 PCI. > It worked well under OSS and now it works even better under ALSA and > the FC2 kernel since it has direct support for it! So first find out > what your card is. > > Have you done an upgrade or is this the first linux installation? If > the former make sure you clean up your /etc/modprobe.conf from OSS > remnands. Will tackle sound once I get the video working. Thanks, James
