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3D Acceleration under Slackware

post #1 of 8
7/25/05 at 7:30pm
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Right now I have a Dell Latitude C610 with an ATI Mobility M6, and I can NOT find a way for 3D rendering to work..

My question is, for anyone who has installed Slackware onto a Dell 700m or any other laptop with Intel Extreme Graphics 2, did Slackware automatically enable 3D acceleration or did you have to configure it yourself? I'm just wondering because I was planning on installing it onto this laptop, but if it doesn't work, I'd rather switch to a different distro than trying again, which really makes me sad because I do love Slackware.

If you don't have Slackware but you know of a distro that did work out of the box with 3D acceleration, please let me know. I know Mandrake works wonderfully out of the box. Thanks!
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post #2 of 8
7/25/05 at 11:49pm
isn't i810 or i915 modules loaded?
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post #3 of 8
7/25/05 at 11:57pm
easy enough, just dowload the xorg (or xfree) fglrx drivers for your architecture and then edit xorg.conf (or xfree86 config file) from "ati" or "vesa" to "fglrx"

i hope you knew that by now
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post #4 of 8
7/26/05 at 1:23am
I am not a know it all so I can only vouch for distro's I have tested on my M6811. Only Linspire 5 , Xandros 3 , Libranet 3 got my FGLRX working out of the box! Catch all are pay versions unless you can find them floating around. Kanotix installs easily and then has a script to automate installation for FGLRX. Linux is about trial and error for the most part. I love slack, but have yet to find the ultimate version (in my opinion easy to use). I learned alot using it. Being a noob I like easy to use stuff and would rather learn about linux at my own pace and during installation etc. Good Luck and keep trying the Ultimate distro for you is out there, you just have to find it!
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post #5 of 8
7/26/05 at 3:01am
hold on you got me confused


you have an ati or intel integrated???
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post #6 of 8
7/26/05 at 12:59pm
What abf said.

Slackware is far from a "pretty happy foo foo" linux distro. If you are uncomfortable with downloading tgz's running installpkg, doing ./configure,make and checkinstall and hand hacking some conf files then you may want to look at another distro.

It's really not to hard of a distro once you get comfortable on the command lineand there are plenty of slackware oriented howto's out there that can help you along the way.

I've got Slack 10.1 running beautifully on my Dell i700m.. just using the standard vesa drivers. I will also say that natoriously ATI is not nearly as linux friendly (although they are much better as of late) as other video chipsets.

Anyway, look into what abf said to do and if you get hung up on something let us know and I'll help you out if I can.
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post #7 of 8
7/26/05 at 3:39pm
downloading ati drivers is not that hard. it really isn't. although i have never done it in slack, i have installed ati drivers in mepis, ubuntu, fedora and vida
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post #8 of 8
8/1/05 at 8:21pm
If you want the might of slack combined with easy to use try vectorlinux. www.vectorlinux.com
try soho. I just installed them with my ati card. They work. I downloaded the rpm from ati 8.14.13
First of all you do:
rpm2tgz fglrx....bla.rpm
Then you go to mc pressed f2 on the name of the brand new tgz package created and selected insall.
Then close mc and cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
sh make.sh
cd ..
sh make_install.sh
mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Put at the driver section fglrx instaed of ati or radeon. Works for me
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