Dell Latitude PP01L: ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW and AC'97 Modem
I've just installed sid on a Dell Latitude PP01L. I have a few questions:
* 3d Acceleration. As far as I can tell, Radeon Mobility 7500 is
supposed to be supported in X 4.3 including 3d accel and xvideo. I
can't get 3d accel to work. I have radeon loaded as a module, using the
2.6.6 kernel. I'm using the "radeon" X driver, with the option
"UseFBDev". I've also tried "agpmode" "2" and "4". Regardless, I see
the following in XFree86.0.log
(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
Also, lsmod reports that radeon module is unused.
I've also tried using xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk modules DEB from
dri.freedesktop.org. Same result.
Any ideas how to get 3d accel to work on this card?
* More video card trouble: the rendering is a little "blurry" at
1024x768. Particularly xterm at default font is very poor quality.
I have fontconfig configured with subpixel rendering enabled. I don't
really know how to track down this problem. This is a setup
transported from another laptop (with a Mach64 card) where there was
no such problem.
* WinModem support: lspci reports PCTel Inc Dell Inspiron 2100 internal
modem. Apparently the pctel driver (0.9.7) is supposed to support
this modem, but it doesn't build under 2.6.x. I've googled some and I
haven't gotten a definitive answer on whether there is any way to get
this modem to work under 2.6.x.
* Does anyone know if this machine is known by a different name?
linux-laptop.net doesn't list the model, although other sites claim
various Latitude models are actually PP01L. The specs are Pentium 4M
2Gz, ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500],
3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado], Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM
AC'97 Modem Controller. Came with 256M RAM and 20G HD, I've upgraded
to 384M and 80G. I would love to find someone with this exact system
who has already dealt with configuration issues.
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Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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