<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"> <div> Tormod, thank you for the reply.<br> <br> yes, i tried to install your driver before, but didn't notice any changes. i got it from here:<br> <br> http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mesa-legacy/libgl1-mesa-dri-legacy_7.11.2-0ubuntu1~edgers1_i386.deb<br> <br> i don't know how to handle drivers in Linux appropriately, so i just installed the package with some GUI installer and expected it would be enough. perhaps, i should have done something before and/or after the installation. can you please instruct me on that?<br> <br> as for the video memory size, i bet i would <font color="black" face="arial" size="2">even </font>get 1024x768x24 under Windows. why else would they choose a 1024x768 panel for the machine? if it's possible in Windows, then why is it not so in Linux? but that's of course just a speculation.<br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod@gmail.com><br> To: junk_yard <junk_yard@aol.com><br> Cc: mesa-users <mesa-users@lists.freedesktop.org><br> Sent: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 11:36 pm<br> Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] cannot get hardware acceleration on old notebook<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_daff6080-213e-4592-b53f-36f39f398c82" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>If you can use the r128 DRI driver, this might help you: <a href="http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70813-DRI1-drivers-for-Ubuntu-12-04-%28savage-mga-r128-tdfx-sis-unichrome%29" target="_blank">http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70813-DRI1-drivers-for-Ubuntu-12-04-%28savage-mga-r128-tdfx-sis-unichrome%29</a> If you need the mach64 DRI driver it is more complicated because the mach64 DRM kernel module never got into the kernel proper and distributions rarely shipped it, as far as I can remember. See also <a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIMach64" target="_blank">http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIMach64</a> Anyway, to use DRI you'll need enough video RAM for (number of pixels * bytes per pixel * 3) so it won't work on 1024x768 at 16 bit. 800x600 should work though. Cheers, Tormod </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font></font>