Vespirah wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:12 am
I would love to know about the Inf modification, I think it might help me out. I found out the 7000/8000/9000 series has issues with Fog Table, 8-bit Paletted Textures and D3D 5.0 games. [
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=617606#p61760] so a simple reg fix seems to take care of that, but not clear if this is necessary or not for me.
The .inf modification is just a very weird way of adding 'support' for ATI's mobile graphics chips (ATI's official drivers did not support them), so it may not necessarily help you with the rendering issues that the driver itself has.
It may be necessary considering that ATI used to produce horrid drivers back in the old times, and I happen to have stumbled upon an
ATI driver that did not need .inf modifications. This is the old-school Omega drivers based off Catalyst 4.10, so I think this might have some fixes for the Direct3D 5.0 fog table and the 8-bit palette textures.
The downside for this driver is that it lacks support for the Mobility Radeon X300 and the Mobility FireGL V3200. It only supports the Mobility Radeon 7500, Mobility FireGL 7800, Mobility Radeon 9000, Mobility FireGL 9000, Mobility Radeon 9600 and the Mobility FireGL T2. This means you are locked to the T40/T41/T42 or the R50/R51 models, just be aware that the R50/R51 could be configured with a Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (and that is something you will not like). Avoid those models and look for a Mobility Radeon 7500 equipped model, they should be easy to find.
EDIT: Found a newer version, but it unfortunately does not support the X300/V3200.
kfzhu1229 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:17 pm
Also, I forgot to say that:
T/A20-22 suffer from some kind of chipset failure after prolonged use.
They definitely did not suffer from a chipset failure, but from a faulty voltage regulator. I am very sure that the Blink of Death was caused by a problematic voltage regulator that overcharged the capacitors, which causes the Blink of Death to occur.