Vista Is The Sh!t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

SO....apparently my laptop's graphics card is not supported by 8.04.....anybody have a fix or recommend a similar OS?
The laptop is a T42 with radeon mobility 7500 Graphics

have you tried the other boot options?

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

have you tried the other boot options?

whadaya talking about

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

what exactly is the problem? Did you make it through the install and then get a black screen after it? If so, your issue is not graphics, but grub.

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions
what exactly is the problem? Did you make it through the install and then get a black screen after it? If so, your issue is not graphics, but grub.

no....the OS boots and display works, but it is glitchy.....can't move windows around without them jumping and xgl is using >50% processor even when I have nothing running.

the desktop has a few bugs as well....and I looked up the 7500 and 8.04 to find people stating it is not supported

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

are you using the ATI driver or fglrx?

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

are you using the ATI driver or fglrx?

does not support the 7500

and the ATI driver is what loads automatically with 8.04 and has all the bugs

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

let me know how this works...im on the same laptop and would love to give it a try

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

let me know how this works...im on the same laptop and would love to give it a try

I loaded it on my desktop and it is amazing.....blazing fast compared to MS and the appearance mods are awesome

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

does not support the 7500
and the ATI driver is what loads automatically with 8.04 and has all the bugs

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_Radeon_7500

looks like it does, give it a shot. and yeah ubuntu is awesome, have you checked out compiz yet?

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_Radeon_7500
looks like it does, give it a shot. and yeah ubuntu is awesome, have you checked out compiz yet?

that is what I was trying to run when everything went to shit...

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

that is what I was trying to run when everything went to shit...

by chance have you made the following changes to your xorg.conf?

Section "Device"
Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
Boardname	"ATI Radeon"
Busid		"PCI:1:0:0"
Driver		"radeon"
Screen		0
Vendorname	"ATI"
Option		"MergedFB"	"off"
Option          "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option		"EXANoComposite" "false"
Option		"FBTexPercent" "50"
Option		"MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option		"DRI" "true"
Option		"GARTSize"	"256"
Option		"AGPMode" "4"
Option		"Colortiling" "On"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier	"Default Layout"
screen		0 "Default Screen" 0 0
Inputdevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option  "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

also note:

ATi's proprietary Linux drivers support only the R200/FireGL graphics chips and above. The Mobility Radeon 7500 is based on the R100 graphics chip; the only Linux driver available for this chip is the open-source radeon DRI.

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

^^^that is where I will go next....thanks

I spent all of last night fighting the thing and then got pissed and formatted the drive....I'll have to reload:crap:

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

I am obviously not on that machine ATM:laugh:

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

so what do i have to use Ubuntu....partition my HD or run it on top of XP

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

BTW...Compiz is amazing on my desktop