ATI Notebook drivers?

[YeNotGuilty]

It's me again...*sigh*

I've been trying all over (even searching and reading here, but nothing seemed to come near the point I need to address)

I have an HP Pavilion ze5375 series laptop computer with an ATI RADEON 345 IGP accelerator in it. I cannot for the life of me find a similar driver in FC1 (or in my old RH9 for that matter), nor is it supported on ATI's site (they say that their mobile chipsets are designed specifically for that hardware, but NO DRIVERS!) or on Red Hat's site (as if they're good for anything anyway :/...may switch to Debian or SuSE soon)

Can anyone point me to a possbile driver location so I can make sure that my laptop is running properly...

and don't tell me to run Hardware Configuration Utility or kudzu, both lock up my computer tighter than Fort Knox.

[Icarus]

You get around that kudzu problem yet? On laptops I think it's only useful if you swap PCMCIA cards often, otherwise there is no need for it ;)


Found this site on installing MDK on that laptop, doesn't look like he has DRI working with it, but gives a few hints on what you may need to do
http://www.geocities.com/five0greek/ze5375us.html

Also, my laptop has a Radeon 9000m and I have been getting by fine with the standard ATI drivers, you can try those also...probably won't hurt at this point

[YeNotGuilty]

No, haven't quite gotten around the kudzu problem, most I've been able to do is disable the module and keep it from running at all...

I have it running under a VESA driver module on an HP Flat LCD Laptop screen display setup

this thing is causing me more trouble than it's worth, methinks :/

[Icarus]

Disable the kudzu service, once the laptop is loaded it's not too usefull

Try doing a non-graphical boot, does it still lock on kudzu?

Grab the regular radeon drivers from www.ati.com for linux, worth trying at least...worst case it won't be able to load the module

Have you tried using the 'normal' radeon driver that comes with XFree86? It might work for basic acceleration

[YeNotGuilty]

Well, I may have to try that once I get the damned thing working again...i tried doing a factory-restore and then partition-magicking it but PM don't want to work, so I'm out a linux distro for a bit until I fix it (tried to install Debian and failed)