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ratty redemption [RIP]:
I'm trying to lean how to use blender 2.49.2 on my gf's dell inspiron 1545 laptop.

other then glsl mode apparently not being supported, I don't have use of a middle mouse button, as I'm using the touchpad with it's 2 buttons, so currently I'm unable to zoom or pan the 3d views.

do you guys have advise?

kat:
USB mouse and possibly keyboard, that's what I do. I'm guessing the GLSL problem is down to on-board graphics, possibly an older Intel based integrated chip-set by the sounds of things as GLSL should run OK and any OpenGL capable machine - Blender's always run OK for me on my machines but I will always stuff them to the gills with RAM and make sure they have ATI/nVidia wherever possible.

ratty redemption [RIP]:
thanks kat, this laptop has 3gb running 32bit vista home premium sp2. the gfx chip is a mobile intel 4 series. the gfx driver version is 7.15.10.1576.

silicone_milk:
I wonder when we're going to have portable external videocards for laptops kinda like an external harddrive  :D

I'd imagine bandwidth bottlenecks are an issue.

ratty redemption [RIP]:
@ milk, that could work and there wouldn't be the heat issues of an internal card.

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