4. Video

The video card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, however linux recognises it as a 9600.  This hasn't caused me any grief though.  I chose the 1680x1050 (16:9) option.  glxgears gives me over 2500 FPS (at its original size) and about 140 FPS when I maximuse it.

Dell Picking Slip 64MV DDR ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 AGP 8X Graphics
Linux identified as (lspci) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
driver The new ati-drivers 8.12.10, or old ati-drivers 3.9.0 www.ati.com (3.11.1 drastically reduces fram rates)
use frequent

4.1. TFT

The TFT LCD is your primary display, and as such the one you'll probably want to get working perfectly.  I had various symptoms with various drivers.  In the end I used the ATI drivers from the ATI Linux download page.  Use Slackware's rpm2targz if you don't have an rpm based distribution.

Here is my working XF86Config file.

Relevant kernel configuration:
CONFIG_AGP=m
# CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set
CONFIG_AGP_ATI=m
# CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_INTEL_MCH is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_EFFICEON is not set

4.2. TV out

4.3. VGA out

4.4. DVI out

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