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Hehe, GhostSong, go back and look at who posted what. kapoorrohit, those links I posted will help you set up Linux on your laptop. But be forewarned, you have the same problem as I. The Radeon chip in the 900 series is completely unsupported. It will, however, work with the generic VESA driver for XFree86. Good luck!

I almost forgot. After you run mke2fs, mount the new partition and move all your music over to it! Have fun!

You can either add a new physical drive or shave some free space off an existing partition. In either case, parition the free space as a FAT32 filesystem and run 'mke2fs /dev/hdXX' for the new partition. Add an fstab entry and have it mount to your music directory. When you boot into Windows, it'll be drive D. HTH!

in source directory: './configure; make; make install'

The de facto standard DVD ripper is, hands down, dvd::rip (http://freshmeat.net/redir/dvdrip/20118/url_homepage/dvdrip) Assuming you have none of these, you'll need: 1. XviD video codec: http://www.xvid.org OR DivX5: http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/ DivX5 looks a little better, DixV is open source. It's up to you 2. avifile: http://avifile.sourceforge.net 3. Transcode: http://freshmeat.net/redir/transcode/15968/url_homepage/transcode 4. Then you'll need to get the Gtk perl module: 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' go through the setup process. When you get to the perl prompt, type: install Gtk Let it do its thing and install any supporting modules it needs. When done, download and compile: 5. dvd::rip: http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ Then do 'dvdrip' and you should be set!

In general, mice don't need drivers. If it's a PS/2 mouse, you'll be fine with a default xf86config setup.

http://www.geocities.com/thaweesakb/linux.html http://david.aragao.name/laptop/reboot.shtml http://www.bisente.com/documentos/presario905/index.en.html

The Presario 2800 series uses Radeon Mobility M7 chips, which work fine in XFree86. The 2100 series uses the Radeon Mobility U1 (aka. Radeon IGP 320M) chips, which are completely unsupported. I have sent an email to ATI's developer relations address: devrel@ati.com I am urging all readers of this post to PLEASE email ATI and ask them to either: 1. Release the technical specs to third-party developers sich as XI Graphics, DRI, or the XFree86 project or 2. Develop their own proprietary drivers as nVidia has done. If there is enough POLITE outcry, there may be some results. Please, if you have 60 seconds, fire them off a courteous email and then post a reply. Thank you all for your help!

That depends on what a Fusiji MO is. Google turned up nothing. Could you please explain what it is you're talking about?

www.slackware.com It's better than anything anyone else says

I've just discovered that the Radeon Mobility U1 chip is one and the same as the Radeon IGP 320M chip. So this may help in identifying the exact hardware in question. Any news on this front? Thanks!

More info: Running Slackware 8.1 from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (--) PCI:*(1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1 rev 0, Mem @ 0xe0000000/28, 0xd0100000/16, I/O @ 0x9000/8 from startup sequence: Warning: ATI Radeon IGP Northbridge is not supported by Linux! from /var/log/XFree86.0.log when it crashes trying to use the "radeon" driver: (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.4.17) for chipsets: ati, ativga (II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK (PCI), ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 SM (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PD (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PP (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro PR (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TR (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP) (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP), ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP), ATI Radeon VE QY (AGP), ATI Radeon VE QZ (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LX (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LZ (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QL (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QN (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QO (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 Ql (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 BB (AGP), ATI Radeon 7500 QW (AGP), ATI Radeon 7500 QX (AGP), ATI Radeon 9000 Id (AGP), ATI Radeon 9000 Ie (AGP), ATI Radeon 9000 If (AGP), ATI Radeon 9000 Ig (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Ld (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Le (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lf (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lg (AGP), ATI Radeon 9700 ND (AGP), ATI Radeon 9700 NE (AGP), ATI Radeon 9700 NF (AGP), ATI Radeon 9700 NG (AGP) (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:05:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found However, I can run X using the "radeon" driver if I do so with the following lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file: Section "Device" Identifier "* Generic VESA compatible" Driver "radeon" ChipID 0x4242 Option "AGPMode" "4" Option "noaccel" VideoRam 65536 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection Obviously, this does not help me too much as the acceleration is what I'm after. If I comment out the Option "noaccel" line, X starts but only the bottom half of the screen is displayed, and then the whole thing locks up. I've tried DRI, assuming I've installed it correctly, it doesn't work either. I'll take any suggestions here. I'd even be happy with "it doesn't work now but xxx release of xxx software will support it in the future." Any information will help. Thanks!