New Laptop. Installing 12.2, ATI and wireless question
I bought a new laptop yesterday and now that I have downgraded to winxp (not a fan of vista) I am ready to throw slack on it. Every is ready but I have to questions.
1) It has an ATI integrated graphics and I have never installed the ATI drivers before since I have always used nvidia. Can anyone point me to a howto or guide to get it working. 2) The laptop has a atheros wireless card which I believe is supported my the madwifi driver but I have never setup wireless before and I know there a lot of post about doing it but it but if anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks in Advance |
The ATI drivers are dirt simple; you download the driver software, download or just print the document, and run it.
Before you do, though, I recommend that you first use xorgsetup to get /etc/X11/xorg.conf is reasonable shape (xorgsetup queries your hardware and generates a good xorg.conf file for you). Start or restart X then proceed with the ATI drivers installation. Be sure you get the correct drivers for your hardware; this example is for my hardware and, well, your mileage may vary: Code:
su - or log in as root and have X running [EDIT] Forgot to mention, sorry, you get the drivers at http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html |
Hello Daedra,
I've an atheros wireless card as well, it works out of the box (full installation of Slackware-12.2). I had to modify my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. in the rc.inet1.conf make the same entries as for a eth0 and additional uncomment the wpa_supplicant line. Here's my example: Code:
## Example config information for wlan0. Uncomment the lines you need and fill Code:
# WPA protected network, supply your own ESSID and WPAPSK here: Markus |
Thanks for the help. I got everything working now except for some reason after I installed the ATI driver now when ever I log in if I log out of KDE and try to restart KDE my computer freezes. I am working on finding a solution but its on the back burner for now.
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Just for testing I tried the newest ATI catalyist driver but it failed during compile, I did some research and read something about the stock slackware kernels causing the problem, so then I compiled my own custom kernel and it compiled fine. However I was then getting lock ups half the time when i exited KDE-3.1.0 and then when it didn't crash when I tried to restart KDE it would cause a kernel panic hardlock, I read even more and the only solution I found was to downgrade to catalyist 8.11. Now everything is working fine. The only other thing I also discovered was that my particular atheros chipset (AR5007 I think it was) didn't work with the 2.6.27 kernel atheros driver, I either had to upgrade to the 2.6.28 kernel or use the current madwifi drivers, Alienbob recently posted a slackbuild for them so I used that and it worked fine with your advice.
you asked my setup, it is Radeon 3100 with KDE-3.1.0 Slack 12.2 custom kernel 2.6.27.9 |
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