<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"> <div>Brian, thank you for the reply.<br> <br> i'm trying to follow instructions from this guide:<br> <br> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s=e456f2090f15d163f0f05b59349349b4&p=29080&postcount=1<br> <br> am i going in the right direction?<br> <br> by the way:<br> <br> $ lspci | grep VGA<br> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)<br> <br> <br> </div> <div> </div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Brian Paul <brianp@vmware.com><br> To: junk_yard <junk_yard@aol.com><br> Cc: mesa-users <mesa-users@lists.freedesktop.org><br> Sent: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 8:09 pm<br> Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] cannot get hardware acceleration on old notebook<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_0c8bc274-11a4-4866-a74a-9b7b643a260d" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Your laptop is pretty old and googling I found that it has an ATI RAGE GPU (though the info above says MACH64RM). I think you'd need the old Mesa mach64 or r128 driver. Those drivers were removed from Mesa after the 7.11 release, about a year ago (and even then probably haven't been tested in years). So you'd have to build/install an old Mesa release (and maybe some old drm/kernel drivers too). But since that's old code, it's hard to say what problems you might run into. -Brian </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font></font>