[TriLUG] RHEL on Compaq 6715b laptop

[Jeff The Riffer]

I've got a brand-new, shiney 6715b laptop with 4GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 
1250 video card.

X absolutely refuses to run. At all. It seems incapable of even talking to 
the video card.

I downloaded and installed the proprietary ATI drivers, and they installed 
no problem. I ran aticonfig against the X config file. No dice, not even 
using --reconfig.
(It wouldn't even use the graphical installer).

So I've got a ticket open for this with RedHat but they noted it's not on 
their Certified Hardware list. I'm rather annoyed that I have no problems 
with RHEL4 on an NC6000 Compaq laptop, which also uses an ATI video card.

Seriously, I could live without hardware 3D acceleration. But it won't even 
use a bloody VESA mode!

So, anyone have experience with this model laptop or video card and Linux? 
Maybe I need a custom build of X?

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