Posts by frostedegg

Ok, I am assuming this is the 128MB PCI-E. Here are the kernel options you need: Loadable module support -> Enable loadable module support: ENABLED Loadable module support -> Module unloading: ENABLED Loadable module support...

Even with the new mobility drivers, the ati Control Center crashes everytime i try to load it in windows with the 256mb X700 in the 4880. I agree that it is just some oddball card that is throwing things off

I've tried both the gentoo emerge ati drivers and ATI's tar. Ive tried compiling against the gentoo-sources patched kernel and the vanilla sources. no luck. I've posted on gentoo forums many times, but no one has anything new. I...

Hamster, ATI has nothing to do with the PCI-E support in the linux kernel. That was all code written by the developers of the linux kernel (Linus T.). ATI writes driver code for their video cards, and PCI-E has to be compiled with the...

Dude, if you read the thread i quoted earlier, you will notice that i mentioned i already tried that, and every other combination, AUTO, LDPS/LDPS, AUTO/AUTO, AUTO/LDPS, LDPS. None of them worked. Also if you read through my thread,...

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=90199 256mb ati x700. I know ATI says it is supported, but we cannot seem to get the drivers to work on the Sager 4880. Nice pep talk..........

wickedferrett: Nothing man, we just gotta wait for another release and give it a shot again. I have tried everything i can find online, and posted in atleast 3 other forums. Nothing man, just chill for another release.

KDE and gnome come packaged with too much extra crap that is rather unnecessary in my opinion and hinders performance. I like linux because of the level of customization (like everyone else has been saying) and I like to customize my...

if you are really that interested in playing hl2, dual boot linux and windows and run hl2 from windows. Emulation will not yield results equal to running the game the way it was designed to be run....

lol, i think this is the second or third time i've seen you post about BSD and then go back to linux. BSD isn't at the desktop level yet. I wouldn't bother swaying from linux as a replacement desktop OS. There just isnt enough...