On 11/25/2009 01:57 AM, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 16:35 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 25/11/09 16:18, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On 11/24/2009 11:41 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 25/11/09 15:31, Fred A. Miller wrote:
'Have a client who bought a Toshiba with an ATI HD-3100 video chipset. I installed the kernel headers and ran the ATI driver installer, which went smoothly. The only problem is, when I go into the KDE desktop setup, composting
Perhaps you should have added just a tad more horse-manure and just a bit more compost starter and water to help the composting along...
is temporarily disabled and it REFUSES to turn on and stay on, thus no 3D. The ATI config. software under KDE seems fine....sets up with no problems.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
See above.
'Not very funny at this point, Basil. I need it to work properly. I'd advised him not to buy anything with ATI, but........
Sorry, Fred, one of those one just cannot resist......
But, you told him not buy anything with ATI in it...but he did...and, the worse part is, you nevertheless accepted the job to install (I assume) 11.2 on his 'puter with ATI-anything on it.... :-( .
(Just tell him that 3D is just not, well simply, not worth it. Slows one down....the cpu usage goes up....the temperature of the CPU goes up..... the 'puter will not last as long with all the extra heat being generated.....the heat will burn his groin...and possibly blow his nuts off if the battery overheats....)
Or switch the system to Ubuntu (9.04), my lappy with an ATI card and 3d stuff works just fine.
Is it an HD3100 chipset?! Fred -- "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." --George Washington -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org