[ltp] ATI Driver - Thinkpad T43 w/ X300

[noc ops]

Jiang Qian wrote:
> 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
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My current newly installed ubuntu has X.org v6.8.2. I'm guessing I
should leave this as is unless people think this is not a stable release.

I will go ahead and install ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-i386.run unless
you think 8.21.7 is more stable and gives better output.


regards,
/virendra

> 
>>
>>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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