Radeon 7500 and Vista

[R40_user]

Okay. I have been using Vista on my R40 for a few weeks
and it has been pretty good...except for the video.

Oh..it isn't that bad..but it isn't perfect, either.

I had to assign the Radeon 9000 drivers as I could
not find any 7500 drivers to work with Vista..until now.

You can use the Catalyst 6.2 Windows XP drivers for
the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 but you have to patch the catalyst
file with a "DH Mod Tool". The most current version I could
find worked although the post I found about it was recommending
an older version of the mod tool that I wasn't able to locate.

There is not a lot of information, but I believe the mod tool
modifies the Catalyst driver not to search for a compatable
device before it will install. Otherwise, the Catalyst driver
gives an INF incompatabity type error and it aborts the
installation.

Once I patched the file, I was able to install the driver with
little problems. It did want to run in compatability mode,
but other than that..once it installed and I rebooted it
worked like a charm. Shows ATI 7500 in the device manager.

And the video problems have all but vanished!

If anyone wants more information, please let me know!

[frankiepankie]

What i did: Just use the 7500 Mobility driver in Vista, reboot > image screwed, navigate to control panel > display (hard if the screen is separated in 2 halves ) and set the "Monitor refresh frequency" from 43Hz or something (weird value) to 60Hz, and my image was just as it should be

Vista index rating, graphics subpart went from "1" to "1.9"

[R40_user]

Very cool.

I couldn't get mine to take the XP driver at all...if I forced
it and rebooted it went back to that generic video adapter
thing.

Good to know there is more than one way to fix the problem, though

[toad]

Don't know about vista, but I recently got compiz working on my Radeon 7500 mobility. It now looks like this without any hitches (an impressive card):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ImW0-MgR8I

[proaudioguy]

Don't know about vista, but I recently got compiz working on my Radeon 7500 mobility. It now looks like this without any hitches (an impressive card):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ImW0-MgR8I

Honestly what is the point?

[toad]

Good point

On Linux, you can have more than one desktop - that is old news, granted. But it is very useful if you rip a CD/DVD, write an email, surf, listen to music, what have you all at the same time. I have limited myself to four desktops: work / internet for pleasure / multimedia / system

I find the ability to group certain windows together absolutely invaluable. I can also choose whether a CTRL + TAB cycles through the windows of my current desktop (on my work desktop I have at least three windows open) or through those of the whole desktop (as many as eight or ten altogether). Again, very useful.

There are also some nice features which are not in the video: I can adjust it so that if I move the mouse to say the bottom left of the screen, I can view all my desktops at once and which windows are open on each desktop. A double click on the desired desktop opens it.If I move the mouse to the bottom right of the screen, all windows are minimized and the desktop is shown.

These are just a couple of examples and the whole thing is very customizable (and therefore takes a little application to get it right for your ).

However, I am not sure whether vista with its reported overheads is capable of supporting ten open applications in the first place on a five year old machine...

Hope that answered your question

[proaudioguy]

OK I didn't realize you were looking at different desktops. I thought it was strictly this liquid eye candy thing. I generally run my OS in classic mode just to avoid all that.