Thinkpads Forum

Hi everyone,

after installing various distro's I have setteled on Fedora Core 2. Really like it.

One of the problems I currently have (and it really gave me grey hairs on all the distro's based on kernel 2.6.xxx) is the ATI Driver.

I am using my Thinkpad T41p in a docking station - the docking station has a DVI out and I have a Philips 180P2 LCD screen connected to it.

What I would like is the following:

1400 x 1050 res when using the Laptop
1280 x 1024 res when docked

as far as I can tell (have looked far and wide ;o) I need the ATI driver to be able to do this (and play 3D accellerated games) - the drivers on the ATI site only support 2.4.x though!

Does anybody have any idea if this configuration is currently possible? If so, how would I go about installing it - I am willing to "get dirty" when doing this, the only problem is that I am new to linux and am currently really lost (

I did find this link:

http://www.sebastiandierksmeier.de/thin ... ex.en.html

which lead me to this:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supple ... lrx/3.9.0/

and this read-me:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supple ... 9.0/README

but it is a step-by-step to the installation on SUSE 9.1 -> I even have a copy (bought) of SUSE 9.1 but really like my Fedora installation ;o)

Could anybody perhaps translate the SUSE instructions into Fedora (if that is even possible)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated ;o)

Thanking you all in advance
Ursus

ps: please remember that I am really a newbie - have only used Linux for about 1 month now - and that was just installing the different distros and trying to get ACPI and the graphis-driver to work (

Was reading this last night:

http://www.finux.org/Reprints/Reprint-Brown-OLS2004.pdf

Found this quote:

"Docking station support is completely abscent from Linux."

Having never tried it, I'm curious if anyone has done this.
The source of this statement is quite authoritative.