RE: fglrx-driver on mobility X800

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>]

Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:01:18 -0500
From: Henry Gunter <henryg at henryg dot net>

> A laptop with an X800? How hot does it get? And how long does the
> battery last if you play 3D games? :)
it gets quite warm, have not got X to run yet

> > [...] The driver reports support for "Mobility X800 XT (M28
> > 5D48" lspci reports "unknown device 5d4a" .
>
> Try with
>
>   ChipID 0x5D48
>
> in your XFree86's Device section: this tells the driver to behave as if
> the chip was the supported 5D48 instead of you 5D4A. No guarantees that
> it will work, but trying shouldn't hurt. Good luck...
>
> --
> Ciao, Flavio
now I get a black screen, X starts, I can login, ssh in, and all X apps
are running, but the screen is dark