[ltp] ATI Driver - Thinkpad T43 w/ X300

[Jiang Qian]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:22:39PM -0800, noc ops wrote:
> Looking for some thoughts regarding the driver I'm looking to use for my
> TP T43 w/ x300.
> 
> According to ati's website (ati.com), section under
> 
> 
> Notebooks with ATI Graphics->
> 
> ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Drivers for XFREE86 / X. Org Version
> 8.22.5->
> 
> ->ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-i386.run
> 
> appears to be the most current driver.
If you don't mind closed source driver tainting your kernel, it works 
pretty well for me with X300. I'm using a version earlier: 8.21.7.  
Stability is very good: I use it with Xorg 8.2 and patched vanilla 
2.6.12.4 and my T43 has very long uptime(30 days to be precise. It 
crashed because I removed the battery to my fridge--longer battery 
time--and my apartment's power failed.) I use suspend to ram a couple of 
times a day so that's about 100 suspend-to-ram cycles(to get it to work 
you need to patch the kernel, though). No random lockup for me though I 
don't play games. 3D is working of course, and the power save mode does 
make my laptop cooler(it's at least comparable and quite possibly better 
than the dynamic clock on open source driver).
Jiang
> 
> 
> Has anyone used this driver? If so, is this the correct driver for TP
> T43 w/ X300?
> 
> 
> Please advice.
> 
> 
> regards,
> /virendra
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