Re: [kde-linux] Cannot access certain site

Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 29 March 2008 09:22:39 david wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
So what sort of spec are you talking about? It would help us to
understand your problem. As for the new laptop, maybe the video card is
too recent? It sometimes takes a while for things to catch up. When I
bought this laptop there was a similar problem, which went away as things
updated.
We don't buy new stuff - we're bottom feeders. We buy cheap stuff.

The wife's new laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A205-S5804, which uses
Mobile Intel GL960 Express graphics. I did try to use KUbuntu's Intel
driver with it, and only succeeded in getting a blank black screen. So
is that chipset so new that Linux doesn't really support it yet?

Absolutely not. Have you googled for this? Try 'linux graphics GB960'. I
got plenty of hits. For a starter

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Video/Intel
<quote>
The driver for this controller is known as i810, is open-source, and is
distributed as part of the X.org X server packages with Linux distributions.
This driver provides low-performance 3-D graphics acceleration capabilities.
</quote>

It was the i810 driver that gave me the blank black screen on her
machine. Using KUbuntu 7.10 in her case.

My laptop is about four years old now. It uses Intel 855GM video. And
everytime X shuts down while using the Intel driver, it reports errors
trying to initialize some feature of the Intel 830 graphics chipset.

I have a 6-year-old laptop that runs Fedora 6. Slow, but everything runs.
Again, have you googled? There's plenty of info out there.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Direct_rendering_on_Intel_Extreme_Graphics_(855GM)_chipsets
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Extreme_Graphics_2
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html

Thanks, I shall look into it.

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