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Yo dudes, I picked up a Acer Aspire 3000 for $25 which made me happy as I've been itching to get back on Linux and my main rig is down and I can't use it on my work lappy.

Anyways, this thing as a SiS Mirage 2 video card and I cannot find any drivers for it. I know it has installed something, as I can go to te native res, but I can't turn on Compiz and the like.

I hope this cheapy laptop as enough beef to run Compiz.

Any thoughts?


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I'm on Linux Mint 7, mah fav.

I used to be somewhat knowledgeable in this, but it's been over a year and I can't even remember how to view the Xorg file.

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sis has no support for hardware acceleration under linux (at least 3d). if you want some very basic composting, you can use xcompmgr. note that its buggy.

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markatto

I don't think that the SiS chipset drivers support 3d or compositing- in other words, compiz isn't the window manager that you want to be using.

your xorg.conf file is probably located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, although your distro may not have one by default; these days xorg can actually run without one. As far as "viewing" it, just point your preferred text editor at that file; you sound new-ish, so nano would probably be your preferred command line editor (sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf)

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