« Installing the Flash Plugin for All Linux GUI Browsers | Main | My Ultimate Gaming Machine »
March 7, 2005
Notebook Linux Gaming Blues
The new notebook has an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 graphics chip. When I installed Fedora Core 3 on it, hardware accelerated OpenGL (3D redering) worked; right out of the box.
However, some features of the chipset are not supported by the open source radeon driver. The one I've run into several times already is the lack of support for compressed textures. So I decided to pay ATI's website a visit and download their fglrx driver for this chip. No joy.
Unfortunately, their website no long lists any drivers for my chip. The driver upporting the Radeon 8500 and above is the only one available.
So then I decided to try Dell's support website. I pulled up the available files for Linux for the Inspiron 4150 notebook; no video drivers at all.
Maybe I will get lucky and find it somewhere out on the Internet. In the meantime, if any of you out there have ATI's fglrx Linux driver which supports the Radeon 7500 cards, please, let me know.
Posted by lamontp at March 7, 2005 8:57 PM