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Old 06-17-2003, 07:02 AM   #1
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Amilo A 7600 / Radeon IGP320M


Hello

i've bought the notebook amilo a 7600 from fujitsu-siemens which has an integrated ATI RADEON IGP320M graphic card. Suse 8.0 doesn't recognize the card and is using the standard vesa mode which only allows a resolution of 800x600. The display is prepared for 1024x768. I've heard about www.xig.com who provide ATI drivers for 89 dollars.... has anyone till know found another way to get this graphic card working?? I've red in a hp forum that the new XFree Version 4.3.99 should support this new graphic card, but if got too less experience with X. So while i was trying to install this "pre" version of Xfree i am getting a lot of errors, which frustates me.

Has anyone the same notebook and was able to get this gc working?

Greets Sam
 
Old 06-17-2003, 10:00 AM   #2
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Okay,

know i have downloaded the files Xfree86-4.3.99.6.tar.bz2 and 4.3.99.5.-.4.3.99.6.diff.bz2.

I have extractet Xfree86-4.3.99.6.tar.bz2 to /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6
know there is a file structure like this

/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/

the directory xc contains all the files and direcs from X... know i have edited /config/c/site.def and changed

#ifndef ProjectRoot
#define ProcejtRoot /usr/X11R6
#endif

to

#ifndef ProjectRoot
#define ProcejtRoot /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc
#endif

after saving that file i've changed direc to /xc and executed make World >& install.log

after a long while it finishes with the error:

xcursorgen.c:35 png.h: No such file or directory

i've also tried "find / -name png.h" but couldn't find that file. Maybee i have to aply the diff file before compiling Xfree?? if yes how can i perform this task?

Thx in advance

Greets Sam
 
Old 06-17-2003, 10:42 AM   #3
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ok im not really sure but i did a quick look since i think im going to need to update x for this also. check if you have libpng-devel installed anywhere and if not install it. if it is installed then search google for png.h like i did cause there seems to be some problem with it ( i gather from this letter i found on my search)

> > > > #endif
> > > >
> > > > directly to links.h after png.h inclusion instead - if it works it
> > > > will be much more beautiful solution... If not, I'll apply your
> > > > patch.
> > >
> > > Here is improved patch.
> >
> > Nope:
> >
> > checking for png.h... no
> > checking for libpng/png.h... no
> > checking for png_create_info_struct in -lpng... yes
> > configure: error: You need libpng to compile Links in graphics mode
> >
> > That is, it didn't work. My (stock Mandrake's 9.0's, that is) location of
> > png.h, pngconf.h is quite natural: /usr/include/libpng12, with a link
> > /usr/include/libpng to it, and corresponding links /usr/include/png.h,
> > /usr/include/pngconf.h. What's wrong with that? Before Dec 25 version,
> > all was a-OK, even with configure.in looking for png.h in
> > /usr/local/include. Now I have symlinks for png.h, pngconf.h there, too
> > -- but no luck, again. Something is very wrong here: were it be a wrong
> > order of #include's, or whatever.
>
> Check permissions for those files.
all (png.h, pngconf.h) were changed to 100777 from whatever they were.

Actually, links-...13 configures successfully with its default font. Your
patch2 makes make compile it. With freetype configured (YES), no hooking to
my system's ttf file(s) by Ctrl-o->Document->Font-Families. Then, I wanted to
change to fonts of my cut: copied them over default ones, then
make distclean
autoheader
autoconf
automake
./configure --enable-graphics --enable-javascript
It is this ./configure that stopped working.

Something is terribly wrong here.



so from this it seems there is some type of patch, it should be included in yours though as that was an older letter so id make sure you have the libs installed...if you get it working let me know cause like i said i guess ill have to do this too.

Last edited by Brain Drop; 06-17-2003 at 10:45 AM.
 
Old 06-17-2003, 11:34 AM   #4
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Hi

@Brain Drop

First of all thx for your answer...

i have found a patch for Xfree86 Ver. 4.3.0 especially for this card. Have a look at http://www.rexursive.com/articles/linuxonhpze4201.html

I am new to linux and have less time for it

Hope this will help you... please let me know if it works...

Greets Sam
 
Old 06-17-2003, 12:08 PM   #5
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hey thanks for that link, when i get some time im going to give that a go.
 
Old 06-17-2003, 12:12 PM   #6
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Hi

with installing libpng-devel make World works...
but when i am trying to do an make install it fails with
Quote:
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL'
+ install -c -m 0444 gl.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `gl.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/gl.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 glext.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `glext.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/glext.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 glu.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `glu.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/glu.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 glx.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `glx.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/glx.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 glxint.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `glxint.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/glxint.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 glxmd.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `glxmd.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/glxmd.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 glxproto.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `glxproto.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/glxproto.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 glxtokens.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `glxtokens.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/glxtokens.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 osmesa.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `osmesa.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/osmesa.h' are the same file
+ install -c -m 0444 glxext.h /home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL
install: `glxext.h' and `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL/glxext.h' are the same file
make[3]: *** [install] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include/GL'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc/include'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sammy/xfree4.3.99.6/xc'
make: *** [install] Error 2
have if forgotten to set an option in site.def???

Greets
 
Old 06-26-2003, 11:12 AM   #7
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after i wasn't able to install this pre version of 4.3 i am now trying to install 4.3.0. The installation procedure seemed to work fine. But after rebooting and trying to start the x server the system stucks. really dont know whats going wrong.... i have found this in the last post mentioned patch especially for this ati card, but i dont know how am i able to install this patch. has someone experience with this and can tell me how the fu** i am able to install it?? i dont want to fall back to windows....

Greets sam
 
Old 07-15-2003, 09:02 AM   #8
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Thumbs up IGP320M Working

Hi,

I'm quite happy with my Amilo 7640.

I got a tar/gz package with an installer for the driver.

There's a link (and other useful info) on that page : http://koti.mbnet.fi/~keiky/misc/lin...ilo_linux.html

I don't know the depth of your linux skills, so if you think you're stuck at X start before installing the driver, try pressing CTRL-Alt-F1.

Or when lilo/grub comes up, go for the text prompt and choose a non-graphic runlevel (2 or 3 sounds reasonable).

The driver there is not 3D accelerated, so there might be some progress in the next month, but at least it works reasonably well, including for DVD playback ;-)

Good luck,

ECB
 
Old 09-05-2003, 09:00 AM   #9
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Lastest update is about DRI and 3D..
 
Old 09-09-2003, 06:40 PM   #10
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I compiled it and was fine , now we can play 3d games on amilo
But they're some irq conflicts than forbid to use lan (8139too) at the same time.

see please help at :
 
Old 11-26-2003, 07:48 AM   #11
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i have now installed suse 9 pro and it works so smooth with this laptop. The only disadvantage is that no hardware acceleration is supported. I'll keep searching...
 
  


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