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ATI drivers in linux
Name: RazorXP Date: April 23, 2004 at 23:14:27 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: 1.4 amd
Comment:
im trying to convert from windows to linux and a very important thing is games...i was just owndering if there were any good ati drivers for linux out there? ive herd www.ati.com has pos ones...is this ture? and if so how/were can i get different drivers for a radeon 9700 pro?
Summary: Actually I've never installed drivers in linux, but what I can recomend is finding out on what port is the external modem hooked to (ex:com1, com2, lpt1, etc.) and using the pppsetup command. Good Luc...
Summary: Yeah the OpenGL support in Mandrake is MESA and it is not sufficient. But I've had trouble installing the ATI drivers. Described at http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/27372.html Thanks. A...
Summary: Open a console with admin rights, then run the file like this: ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run Follow the instructions on your screen. To escape the "installation text", just press ctrl-q...