that's my laptop and it's a compaq p4 with 512 mb of ram and 64 ded. to the video card.
so my advice is to give up on 3d and high res. ati is not exactly linux friendly beyond the minimums. I consider myself lucky to get 1024 x 768.
you could sell the laptop and then buy a new one with nvidia graphics. i'm told that's the way to go.
mike hoy
Ted Markowitz wrote:
Gang,
Now that I have the latest ATI display driver compiled and working, I'm still experiencing the same inexplicable system freezes that led me to upgrading the driver in the first place. To date I'm still only able to consistently use the slower vesa driver up to 1600x1200, whereas the system display should be as fast as lightning with the new ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 chip which supports up to 1920x1200 with 3D acceleration.
If I use either the standard FC3 'radeon' or the new ATI 'fglrx' driver, even with a very vanilla xorg.conf, the system will inevitably just lock up with no error messages in any log. Sometimes it'll happen when I'm moving the cursor around the screen a few minutes after bootup, but it also occurs when I'm not touching the system at all, for example, when the xscreensaver is running and I've gone to sleep, so there's no pattern I can see. Sigh...
The system is a brand new Dell Inspiron XPS with 1G of memory and plenty of free disk space. I'm running Fedora Core 3 (2.6.10-1.741_FC3), though this was also happening when I was still running FC2. Any ideas as to what's happening and how to fix it or at least how I could track down exactly what's causing the freeze would be VERY much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--Ted
