Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 04:46 pm, you wrote:
> > I recently bought a IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses a ATI Radeon 7500
> > mobiliti as it's video card. Using woody...
>
> The ATI Radeon Mobilty is support with Xfree86 4.2 and above, as far as
> i know
> since Stable(woody) uses 4.1, it won't work.
> you have 3 choices I think:
> 1. upgrade to unstable or testing, both use 4.2.1...
> 2. find a apt-mirror on www.apt-get.org with a backport to woody of the
> 4.2.1
Well, According to 4.1.0 release documentation (
http://www.xfree.org/4.1.0/Status6.html#6 ): Accelerated support is provided
for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips.
Btw, as I said in my previous message, I took the second route, upgraded to
4.2.1 using apt-get, but as I said, this didn't improve things.
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