3d acceleration on suse 9.3 with a compaq m700 (ATI 3drage p/m mobility)
 

Hi , I am trying to get the 3d acceleration enabled on my compaq armada m700. The onboard card is an ATI 3d rage P/M mobility agp 2x. When in yast 2 it declares that 3d acceleration is unavailable. As a complete newbie to linux i am completely lost here. I've had a search around and found many solutions for other distro / versions. To be honest it makes no sense to me cvs this dri that snapshots???? : ( ....I really need some help and thank anyone in advance for any help.

I have a M700 also. Even though I've never encountered any problems with OpenGL, I have not managed to enable DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) on this laptop. It should be possible, however.

Anyway, check these two sites, they contain lots of pages about Linux and M700, including one of mine:

www.tuxmobil.org
www.linux-laptop.net

You can check my M700 (Debian Testing) page here:
http://users.utu.fi/sjsepp/linuxcompaqarmadam700.html

I have a XF86Config-4 there, which you can use as a reference, if it helps.

I looked into these , There is a lot of information here although i cant see any one who has enabled 3d support. But still there are many things i didnt consider like power saving. So this is a great resource Thanks. I have been playing around with the DRI thing although i dont know what im doing and it isnt going very well Anyone got any sucess stories with this??. Thanks again basileus