3d acceleration for radeon mobility 7500

["Tim" <debian@sp1r1t.de>]

hi everybody,

i recently bought an IBM thinkpad R51. i got wlan, GBit-ethernet and
everything else i need  to work under debian sarge/testing with a 2.6.6
kernel, except for the 3d acceleration of the ati radeon mobility 7500
card.

there are no mobility drivers on the ati page, the ati guys only tell you
to go get the drivers from your notebook manufacturer (who of course
doesn't offer them for linux) and that
 "Support for a specific driver feature (such as hardware acceleration of
OpenGL) may be incorporated into a particular display driver (or not) at
the discretion of the notebook manufacturer". [1]
furthermore, no ati radeon 7500 standard driver is available on the page.

there are a lot of options and quiet some hits on google where people
suggest different things, but nobody reported back to state if what they
were told / intended to try had worked or not.

does anybody have 3d acceleration working under debian sarge? if so,
could you please tell me what driver and configuration you are using?

thanks for any responses,

Tim


[1] http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/laptops/index.html