ATI Radeon Mobility 5740 HD

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Janis Eisaks <je at ktf.rtu.lv> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I recently got an Acer Aspire 5740G with such GPU on board.
>
> To my great disappointment, when i tried to install Slack64, i found that
> such GPU doesn't have even ATI proprietary driver.
>
> Following use-it-or-loose-it principle, i tried to install Fedora 12 (64bit)
> and after update ir worked in full beauty.
>
> As I want to have Slackware64 - what drivers have i to use to get it working
> or this is just some specific Redhat/Fedora solution?

You can use xf86-video-ati from git master or one of the 6.13 release
candidates or vesa right now.  I suspect F12 probably used vesa.

Alex