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ATI drivers in mandrake 10.1

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Name: John Lawrence
Date: February 18, 2005 at 12:18:14 Pacific
OS: mandrake linux 10.1 offic
CPU/Ram: athlon xp 3000+/512DDR
Comment:

I have an ATI radeon 9800 Pro video card, and I was just wondering what kind of driver mandrake 10.1 installs by default. I was thinking about dl'ing and installing Point2Play and Cedega 4.2.1, so I'm just wondering if the driver installed by default in mandrake 10.1 is "enough" for games like vice city, or CS, or if I need to install x.org 6.8 or whatever it is, and install the newest ATI RPM from ati.com.

John Lawrence



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Name: houston1981
Date: February 18, 2005 at 20:53:44 Pacific
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I don't think there are any 3D Acceleration enabled drivers for ATI cards, but wait till someone with more experience comes along.

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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave
Date: February 22, 2005 at 08:55:41 Pacific
Reply:

ATI have good GNU/Linux support as d nvidia.
You can download 3D accelerated drivers from
here:
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

I haven't used ATI cards myself but many
people on this forum have had great success.


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Response Number 3
Name: Gorian
Date: February 23, 2005 at 11:37:46 Pacific
Reply:

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.

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