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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Cannot access certain site
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2008-03-29 12:09:52
Message-ID: 200803291209.58873.cannewilson () googlemail ! com
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On Saturday 29 March 2008 09:22:39 david wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> > So what sort of spec are you talking about?  It would help us to
> > understand your problem.  As for the new laptop, maybe the video card is
> > too recent?  It sometimes takes a while for things to catch up.  When I
> > bought this laptop there was a similar problem, which went away as things
> > updated.
>
> We don't buy new stuff - we're bottom feeders. We buy cheap stuff.
>
> The wife's new laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A205-S5804, which uses
> Mobile Intel GL960 Express graphics. I did try to use KUbuntu's Intel
> driver with it, and only succeeded in getting a blank black screen. So
> is that chipset so new that Linux doesn't really support it yet?
>
Absolutely not.  Have you googled for this?  Try 'linux graphics GB960'.  I 
got plenty of hits.  For a starter

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Video/Intel
<quote>
The driver for this controller is known as i810, is open-source, and is 
distributed as part of the X.org X server packages with Linux distributions. 
This driver provides low-performance 3-D graphics acceleration capabilities. 
</quote>

> My laptop is about four years old now. It uses Intel 855GM video. And
> everytime X shuts down while using the Intel driver, it reports errors
> trying to initialize some feature of the Intel 830 graphics chipset.
>
I have a 6-year-old laptop that runs Fedora 6.  Slow, but everything runs.  
Again, have you googled?  There's plenty of info out there.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Direct_rendering_on_Intel_Extreme_Graphics_(855GM)_chipsets
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Extreme_Graphics_2
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html

and lots more.

Anne

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