Seems the latest git for ati open source driver has the dri (direct rendering infrastructure) working. So, after installing the drivers from the source I was able to enabled desktop effects in my kde4. Yup sweetness of success atlast... so here are the steps to enable it...
Open your favorite command line too (konsole, terminal, xterm etc)
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git-core
sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev x11proto-gl-dev mesa-common-dev xutils-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev x11proto-render-dev xserver-xorg-dev
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
cd xf86-video-ati
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-dri
make
sudo make install
Now reboot your computer. I thought restarting kdm should have worked, but it seems the driver files are not getting loaded.
Open your system settings and go to desktop effects. Click enable, but before you press apply go to advanced and change the rendering to xrenderer. Now click apply and there you go.. linux eye kandy the way you want :-D....
some changes are done from the steps given here. All credit goes to the post in the link and to open source ati developers... hats off to you guys...
Showing posts with label asus m51ta-x2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asus m51ta-x2. Show all posts
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Installing Linux On ASUS ...
As I had expected based on the forums and other places I have read that there would be issue in installing linux on this baby...
The laptop looks pretty good, not stylish or as designer as the laptops like dell studio or hp hdx or lenovo ideapad... but for lesser dough you cannot get them with this config...
Anyways that is beside the point... come back to the moot point...
I tried installing alpha of jaunty, intrepid with acpi=off and noapic as per some thread but no go on that... would get stuck on some step or the other on booting itself... never came to see gdm login... so thought would try fedora instead... fedora 10.1 installed without any issue with acpi=off... but then there were some update and everything went bonkers... so now I am stuck with vista... I wanted vista to play games...
now I am waiting for the new version of jaunty to come may be beta and I will give another try to it to see if it works... if it works then custom compile the kernel to get acpi on and then if there are any other updates then I will keep updating this blog...
I am waiting for
The laptop looks pretty good, not stylish or as designer as the laptops like dell studio or hp hdx or lenovo ideapad... but for lesser dough you cannot get them with this config...
Anyways that is beside the point... come back to the moot point...
I tried installing alpha of jaunty, intrepid with acpi=off and noapic as per some thread but no go on that... would get stuck on some step or the other on booting itself... never came to see gdm login... so thought would try fedora instead... fedora 10.1 installed without any issue with acpi=off... but then there were some update and everything went bonkers... so now I am stuck with vista... I wanted vista to play games...
now I am waiting for the new version of jaunty to come may be beta and I will give another try to it to see if it works... if it works then custom compile the kernel to get acpi on and then if there are any other updates then I will keep updating this blog...
I am waiting for
Thursday, March 26, 2009
asus M51TA-X2 and kubuntu...
I am getting this new laptop ... well here is the config... I specifically bought this as it does not support linux, so would be fun installing and playing with it to make linux work :-)...
| Model | |
| Brand | ASUS |
| Series | M51 Series |
| Model | M51TA-X2 |
| General | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Home Premium |
| CPU Type | AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-82 2.2G |
| Screen | 15.4" WXGA+ |
| Memory Size | 4GB DDR2 |
| Hard Disk | 250GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD Super Multi |
| Graphics Card | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 |
| Video Memory | 512MB |
| Card slot | 1 x Express Card |
| Other Features | 30days Zero Bright Dot LCD |
| CPU | |
| CPU Type | AMD Turion X2 Ultra |
| CPU Speed | ZM-82(2.20GHz) |
| CPU L2 Cache | 2MB |
| Display | |
| Screen Size | 15.4" |
| Wide Screen Support | Yes |
| Display Type | Wide XGA+ |
| Resolution | 1440 x 900 |
| Operating Systems | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Home Premium |
| Graphics | |
| GPU/VPU | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 |
| Video Memory | Dedicated 512MB |
| Graphic Type | Dedicated Card |
| Hard Drive | |
| HDD | 250GB |
| HD RPM | 5400rpm |
| Memory | |
| Memory | 4GB |
| Optical Drive | |
| Optical Drive Type | DVD Super Multi |
| Optical Drive Interface | Integrated |
| Communications | |
| WLAN | 802.11n Wireless LAN |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| Ports | |
| Card Slot | 1 x Express Card |
| USB | 4 |
| IEEE 1394 | 1 |
| Video Port | 1 x VGA, 1 x HDMI |
| Other port | 1 x E-SATA |
| Audio Ports | 1 x Microphone-in jack 1 x Headphone-out jack (S/PDIF) |
| Audio | |
| Audio | Integrated Sound card |
| Speaker | Internal Speakers |
| Input Device | |
| Touchpad | Yes |
| Keyboard | Standard |
| Supplemental Drive | |
| Card Reader | MMC, SD, MS/PRO |
| Webcam | 1.3MP |
| Power | |
| Battery | 6-cell lithium ion |
| Manufacturer Warranty | |
| Accidental Damage Warranty | 1 year ASUS Accidental Damage Warranty - Drops, Fire, Spill, Surge for purchase after 9/10/07 |
| Parts | 2 years limited |
| Labor | 2 years limited |
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