[Leaplist] pclinuxos - pleasant experience

[Dan Cherry]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 02:08:08 am Phil Barnett wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 20:38, Dan Cherry wrote:
> > Hi,
> > thought I'd share a _very_ pleasant installation experience with the new
> > test release of pclinuxos.  For starters, after booting the liveCD, the
> > install took less than 10 min. to get to the copy phase, and only 10
> > more minutes until it asked for a reboot!  Most of the first 10 minutes
> > was planning and setting the partitions.  Unless you're very new to
> > partitions, I'd suggest using custom partitions (one of the options) to
> > be sure you see what will be done.  (I was replacing an existing Ubuntu
> > system, so I didn't have to ponder any of the questions very long - I
> > was already familiar with what I wanted).
>
> <giant snip>
>
> Did the video card get accelleration? This is that dreaded ATI Mobility U1
> video, isn't it? ( I think your laptop is identical to mine...)

Good question... What would you like me to check to answer?  

Dan


(This is what the control center observed from the hardware detection, 
and 'yes', I do think we have the same model laptops)

Identification
Vendor: ‎ATI Technologies Inc.
Description: ‎Radeon IGP320M (U1) 4336
Media class: ‎DISPLAY_VGA
Connection
Bus: ‎PCI
Bus PCI #: ‎1
PCI device #: ‎5
PCI function #: ‎0
Vendor ID: ‎0x1002
Device ID: ‎0x4336
Sub vendor ID: ‎0x103c
Sub device ID: ‎0x0024
Misc
Module: ‎Card:ATI Radeon (fglrx)

The Open GL renderer is 'Mesa DRI Radeon 20060327 AGP 4x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE 
NO-TCL

but that doesn't mean anything to me ;-)