3D Acceleration x300 inspiron 6000

derrekito · 08-06-2006, 10:45 AM

I know right? When I purchased this laptop I was under the impression that it was going to be an Intel graphics card, which would have been simple to get going. Oh well, Ubuntu is absolutly amazing, I heard a lot of hype about it be just passed it as fluff... boy was I wrong.

Xena · 08-06-2006, 11:05 AM

By the way, I don't know if you have or haven't got shared memory enabled on the ATI card, but apparantly that's kind of important.

wkeyser · 08-07-2006, 10:05 AM

derrekito:
This may sound lazy but since I haven't managed what you say you have (namely getting direct rendering with the ATI driver) could you just tell me what package name you used with apt-get, and more importantly, form which url (to put in the apt sources.list).
Thanks

derrekito · 08-19-2006, 02:38 AM

I think I have an idea with the shared memory, and well, my ram showes up a few megs shy of the 512 that I have. However, would u mind to run that by me just incase? It may be useful since I am having problems running counter strike, the game works but runs like (edit

poopoo.

derrekito · 08-19-2006, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wkeyser

derrekito:
This may sound lazy but since I haven't managed what you say you have (namely getting direct rendering with the ATI driver) could you just tell me what package name you used with apt-get, and more importantly, form which url (to put in the apt sources.list).
Thanks

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper

This gets you going with all kinds of crazy things! It is a MUST bookmark for any Ubuntu user. Just Crtl+f and look for ATI

Trust me you will thank me!