Nobody comes close to knowing the frustration I’ve had with my graphics drivers and Ubuntu. I’ve reconfigured xorg.conf at least 12 times. Reinstalled Ubuntu twice. Ugh…
So I have an Ati Radeon 9800 in my PC. I couldn’t have picked a worse compatible video card for Ubuntu. Not only does ATI not release open source software, but even with the supplied propriatery drivers, I couldn’t get things to work! Specifically, Beryl.
Beryl is a really cool window manager that gives all sorts of 3d accelerated effects on your desktop. Here’s a video. Cool, no? Of course it isn’t necessary, but it’d really snazz things up. The easy solution is to download the Flgrx drivers (closed source) from ATI and then be done with it. But for some reason, my card wont switch over from the old ones, to flgrx. I can’t get any 3d acceleration. This is definatley a widespread problem in the community, and I’m really awaiting breakthroughs with it.
October 2, 2007 at 3:52 pm |
yo man……go to ati.com
they have linux drivers there 
….attleast you lucky your g.cart supported by those drivers!mine not supported so i se DRI drivers……wierd:)
October 11, 2007 at 9:21 pm |
Yes! I had heard about this too! I don’t have direct access to that computer anymore but the next time I come around to it I will be sure to install them! And the news that my specific card is supported makes it all the better. Go DeathSign!