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

DISCUSSION Ola Theander 3 participants 3 messages Nov 19, 2002 – Nov 20, 2002

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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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Quoted 10 lines · 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.

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".

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Kind regards, Ola Theander

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tty Numbers and co

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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