Hello again, and Clayton, thanks for the swift reply. Any idea how to recover the original setting..? As I described in the e-mail sax2 -r -m 0=radeon or sax2 -a does not fix anymore the situation! :( Cheers, Sampsa On Friday 14 August 2009 12:30:33 pm Clayton wrote:
I have a big problem with an older dell latitude laptop..
The graphics card is radeon mobility 7500 = very old one. It seems that it is not supported by the ati proprietary drivers.
I think you've answered your question and identified your problem right there. ATI has explicitly dropped support for older video cards (in Linux, and in Windows, although there is a Windows Legacy still driver available). The latest ATI drivers are pretty much guaranteed *not* to work with older ATI cards in my experience.
On top of that ATI has explicitly *not* provided any Linux drivers (that I've ever seen) that supported the Mobility 7500. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon#Linux and the bottom section at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_Radeon_7500
Anyway I wanted to try it out and made everything according to the instructions in
The instructions work, but on for supported video cards.. the ones ATI has deemed worthy of still supporting.
All in all, not convincing at all.. I believed that older hardware should work with linux, but instead, my system gets "deadlocked" by the instructions given in the opensuse web page!
Your system will work just fine if you use the opensource Radeon driver - what you had before you started tinkering. The instructions you followed on the openSUSE Wiki are not intended to be used for your video card... as you said, it's not supported by the ATI proprietary drivers.
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