[ltp] Re: Linux-Thinkpad digest, Vol 1 #609 - 6 msgs

[Alexander Naumann]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 14:02, Chris wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:01, linux-thinkpad-request@linux-thinkpad.org wrote:
> > Boy, I wish I could laugh at this... :( Just kidding...
> > Ok, here's my situation (R50): So far the only solution to stop the fan
> > from running ALL the time with Linux is compiling the latest ATI Driver
> > (which is not open and therefore not everybody's first choice) which has
> > the energy saving features. It works better than the original XFree Driver.
> >  I am also using speedstep with a 2.6.7 kernel. That way the fan pretty
> > much behaves like under Window*, which is far from being what you expect
> > from a machine that expensive. Oh - the latest Bios-Update (don't quite
> > remember now which version) solved the problem with the fan running a
> > little faster every 4-5 seconds...
> >
> > Nils
> 
> What video card do you have? is it Radeon 7500? My thinkpad R50 has that video 
> card and all the ATI drivers I happen to see were not designed for this 
> particular model, if you are using 7500, could you give me a link to that 
> driver? 
> 
> Also how did you update the bios, my thinkpad doesn't have floopy driver and i 
> don't have windows, any ideas i can get my bios updated?
You can update your bios ever using this M product or use a desktop with disk-drive,
create the boot disk and than burn a bootable cd.
I think there is also a way you can create a extra bootpartition, but don't ask me more.
Alex

> 
> thanks
> 
> > Hey all --
> > 
> > Has anyone tried the new X11R6.8 release from X.org on their Thinkpad
> > yet?  I have it running, but when I turn on composite mode with the eye
> > candy (drop shadows, transparency) things move very slow.  The log
> > reports that DRI is working, so I'm not sure what the problem might be.
> >   The videocard section from my xorg.conf is simply:
> > 
> 
> >I tried it as well. Suse is awesome - they had rpms yesterday.
> >Xcomposite is really slow. I will have to turn it off soon i think. No
> >drop shadows etc. for me.
> 
> my experience is that with xcomposite, the report says dri is running, but the 
> direct rendering is off, you can try glxinfo to test it, or glxgear to see 
> how fast it goes. i ended up downgrading to 6.7.0.5 cos that was how i can 
> get direct rendering back, BTW i am using radeon 7500, i downloaded the new 
> driver with dynamicclocks support and it didn't work at all. you might not 
> suffer from this if you have a different card.