Does the ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility work well with Linux 2.4.x?

Does the ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility work well with Linux 2.4.x?

[Ola Theander]

Dear subscribers.

I'm planning to buy a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with an ATI Radeon 9000
Mobility 64 MB as the chosen graphics accelerator. I would like to know
if there are drivers available for this card for Linux, preferably with
both 2D and OpenGL (3D) support. I'm running SuSE Linux 8.0
Professional.

Any comments on the suitability of this computer for running Linux are
also welcome.

Kind regards, Ola Theander


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Re: Does the ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility work well with Linux 2.4.x?

[pa3gcu]

On Tuesday 19 November 2002 20:48, Ola Theander wrote:
> Dear subscribers.
>
> I'm planning to buy a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with an ATI Radeon 9000
> Mobility 64 MB as the chosen graphics accelerator. I would like to know
> if there are drivers available for this card for Linux, preferably with
> both 2D and OpenGL (3D) support. I'm running SuSE Linux 8.0
> Professional.
>
> Any comments on the suitability of this computer for running Linux are
> also welcome.

The best place IMHO to get an answer to your question is 
http://google.com/linux

Place Dell Inspriron 8200 in the search engine and you will get a big suprise.

The experts dont seem to like it much tho, as a matter of fact they moaned at 
Redhat a lot as well, good job redhat has problems on laptops.

I suggest you should read this one as well, it will be in the list you get 
from google but i read this one.
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell8200.html

Take a close look at the XF86Config-4 file, they use the nvidia driver if you 
read on and digest you will see that the radeon is not fully supported "yet".

>
> Kind regards, Ola Theander
>


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tty Numbers and co

[Abhijit Vijay]

Hi All,

When I connect to my linux network at school off
building using ssh and do a finger, I see an entry
like:

User   Real Name  What Idle  TTY Host  Console
Location
abhijit Abhijit        11:36   co bayonet  D103 LSRC
abhijit Abhijit               *7* bayonet  
hughes08.biac.duke.edu

As can be seen under the TTY entry, we have "co" and
"7". co is console, signifying the actual location of
the machine "bayonet", right?

And is the "7" assigned randomly? I mean, is the
number "7" because I may have 6 shells open on
bayonet?

Regards,
Abhijit.

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