On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Jeff wrote:
I have an IBM T43p (June '05 or so release) which has an ATI FireGL v3200 (Mobility). In XP, it isn't possible to try out drivers from the vendor, I am limited to drivers from IBM.
In Linux, I have been able to install proprietary drivers from ATI, but there is no selection for the 'Mobility' version of the v3200 on ATI's website; the install has not complained though, and basic stuff appears to be fine (GUI is ok, glxgears, etc).
In both XP and Linux, chimera will crash when attempting to use volume maps. It appears fine with pdb files, although I typically work with volume data so haven't rigorously tested that.
I have been assuming that the FireGL v3200 (Mobility) is the same logic as the v3200, at least documentation I have been able to find seems to imply that.
Does anyone know (or suggest) a chimera-stable driver version from ATI that I might test? I might at least be able to get it to work in Linux, as the driver suite downloaded from ATI appears to cover most late-generation cards.
thanks for any suggestions,
-Jeff
Except for some newer laptops, laptop driver support is practically non-existent, as you have found out. There are unofficial programs that modify the current ATI/NVidia graphics drivers to make them work on laptops. A major reason for using the laptop vendor's graphics driver is that it supports the external video connector correctly. So you may need to downgrade to the vendor's driver to use your laptop for presentations. For ATI, check out <http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=28636> and the tool is at <http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/>. For NVidia, check out <http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/>. For Linux, you should check out Xi Graphics, <http://www.xig.com/>, they have a laptop version of their X server for Linux that might work. And they let you test a full-featured demo before you buy! That said, your laptop is not listed as supported, nor is your graphics chipset, so in this case, there's a good chance it won't work. Good luck, Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab