Tue June 07, 2005 | Michael J. Hammel

The i915 driver snapshot from freedesktop.org fixed my problems with the video on my Acer Aspire 1690. It even allows the graphical boot (aka rhgb) to function again. But I still can’t use the DVD player. I still get lots of errors related to accessing hdb in /var/log/messages. I’ll have […]

Laptop Update: video fixed

Tue June 07, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware / Video tagged acer / aspire / Video (updated 7118 days ago)

Everything was working well today. I took the laptop over to Panera Bread at lunch and got the wireless working there with a little script (the RH network config doesn’t bring it up for some reason). Then I managed to squeeze in a little writing work on my book. But […]

More laptop troubles

Tue June 07, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware tagged atrpms / rpm / Writing / yum (updated 7118 days ago)

More info on support for using the Acer Aspire w/Intel i915GM video: Here is an updated 915resolution, based on the 855resolution tool. Here are snapshots of the dri driver for the i915 from X.org. Note that you need to have X11R6.8.2 to work with this driver (and even then it […]