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Amoeba
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 Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 3:21 am Post subject: 845MP and Mobility Radeon 7500 |
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Just purchased a Compaq Presario 2800 series. emerging system as I type this. Just curious if the 845MP and Radeon Mobility 7500 are supported somewhat. I figure ill give it a shot, but if there is any known problems with the newer laptops and you know how to save me time, then let me know  . |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 4:03 am Post subject: |
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Check out the forum Search page. I turned up this, this and this page regarding the 2800.
This was the only thing I found regarding the Mobility.
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Amoeba
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 4:25 am Post subject: Thanks |
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clattuc
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 8:48 am Post subject: Radeon... |
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Hi!
I'm running Gentoo on a IBM Thinkpad A31 - this has a Radeon Mobility M7 LW (at least, that's what lspci tells me).
I've been told that it's the same as the Radeon Mobility 7500. The pci-id = Class 0300: 1002:4c57.
X works like a charm using the "radeon" driver 1400x1050. Remember to build & modprobe the agpgart kernel module.
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d4h0od
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject: dual screen |
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have u tried to run with both the screen on the laptop and a crt connected at the same time ?
i also have a ibm thinkpad a31 and it would be really nice if i could use both screens in linux as i can i windows... where i extend the windows desktop onto the laptops screen and use the crt as main screen
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clattuc
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:20 am Post subject: Re: dual screen |
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| d4h0od wrote: | | have u tried to run with both the screen on the laptop and a crt connected at the same time ? |
No, mainly because I don't have an appropriate external monitor 
| d4h0od wrote: | | i also have a ibm thinkpad a31 and it would be really nice if i could use both screens in linux as i can i windows... where i extend the windows desktop onto the laptops screen and use the crt as main screen |
Well, I thought the Radeon M7 wasn't capable of doing dual-screen - other than showing the *same* picture on both, I mean, but apparently it is.
Under X that sort of stuff is handled by the Xinerama extension. Don't have any experience with it, though... |
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d4h0od
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 9:11 am Post subject: |
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seems like xinerama is only for those with 2 graphic cards
i only have the mobility radeon 7500 card in the laptop
in linux i can get it to show same picuter on both screens if i set up the computer to use both lcd and crt... but with ugly resolution on the crt screen ;(
in windows with the ati drivers i can use both screens with different resolutions...
dont know if the ati-drivers in portage have support for m7/radeon 7500
i will continue to search the web/forums about this and will post again if i find anything interesting =)
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