Re: ThinkPad T60p X11 driver problems

Dwight Hines <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
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p61 series thinkpad need to bypass lost power-on password.  Bought it at a
closing school sale.
Please help by explainiing how to correct or suggesting what motherboard to
purchase for replacement.

Dwight Hines
Livermore, Maine

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 7:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/13, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
>> IBM ThinkPad T60p
>> Intel T2600 cpu (32-bits)
>> AMD/ATI RV530/M56 GL Mobility FireGL V5200 graphics
>>
>> Fresh install of Debian Stretch 9.  X11 starts in software rendering
>> mode.  The same laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 runs with hardware rendering.
>>
>> Any hints on how what is needed for hardware rendering with this
>> hardware combination in Debian?  I am sure this hardware used to be
>> fully supported and therefore hardware support must have been dropped
>> at some point.
>>
>
> Glad to see you fixed it, but a question are you running in DRI3 mode?
> I just found my T60p was running only in DRI2 mode and a few simple changes
> to xorg.conf enabled DRI3
>
> in device section set DRI3 to True is all it needs.
>
> --
> regards.....
>
> Dekks Herton
>
> Thinkpad T61 2.0Ghz 2GB WSXGA+
>
> Jabber IM: [email protected]
>
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