ATI - Radeon 3100HD RS780MC
 

Although ppl often complain about linux on Satellite, I recently bought an L350D-S5869, and only had minor problems getting it rolling with a couple of tweaks. The story's on the blog: Toshiba install.

A single problem remaining is the video driver, Fglrx will work, though it remains somewhat boggy whether or not direct rendering is operating. So I was pleased to learn of the Oct 13 release of an updated radeonhd driver that supposedly works on newer RS780 video. I compiled radeonhd with the latest tarball from freedestop.org, the one entitled v.1.2.3 and dated Oct 13. It compiled and installed successfully. However, once installed and configured (eg. changes are required in xorg.conf), radeonhd couldn't find my card in spite of otherwise loading well. This was both with Option HPD attempted both "swap", and "off". I then looked in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and was surprised to see, in part:
Version 1.2.1. Annoying. I rechecked the tarball - it was labeled 1.2.3. So I ran the git updates to be sure, and still, it compiled to 1.2.1. Anyone else experiencing this? If you managed to get a 1.2.3 running, please post the link of your tarball or git source; the repositories I visited apparently haven't been updated. Unless it's an error or oversight on my part, it appears I should drop freedesktop.org a line next week. Thanks.

Did you compile all of the latest xorg with that?

Thanks for the reply. Answer - no. My current version of Xorg is version 11. The radeonhd v. 1.2.3 source was the first radeonhd I've compiled on the system - there apparently would be no earlier version of radeonhd on my system for xorg to have loaded by default. It seems that a 1.2.1 version was compiled from a purported 1.2.3 source. Were you able to successfully compile version 1.2.3? If so, a link to where you downloaded your source would be greatly appreciated.