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ubuntu 9.10 support for ati drivers

Asked by Daniel Cornea

Hi I have installed ubuntu 9.04 and I cannot find any proprietary drivers for my ati radeon xpress 200m video card and I want to know if there is any support for this type of card in ubuntu 9.10

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

Ati are being quite appalling about their 'support' of linux at the moment. They have shifted drivers for the 1000 series into their legacy driver which seems to crash most versions of linux. The 2000 series was a regression and the 3000 series was merely a dye shrink of the 2000 series so most people were sticking with the 1000 series because they are better cards. I am not sure which chipset your 200m has but i suspect it's the 1000 series, same as mine. Ati seem determined to force people into buying into the latest range, the 4000 series.

The 4000 series seems to be back on track and seems to be a very decent range again at last. Well worth the money but slightly outside my reach at the moment.

While ati were once hailed as ground-breaking in allowing access to information so that other people could write drivers for them nVidea have put a lot more resources into making a decent OpenSource driver, which wasn't really OpenSource in the way that we know but since they had employed some linux developers in the project these developers were able to build a very decent and properly OpenSource driver. NVidea have also made a decent proprietary driver.

So while ati have successfully managed to wen me away from their old cards they don't have the pull that nVidea now have. I will probably be going with a new nVidea card for the first time ever!

It seems that 9.04 is just about working with my old ati card as long as i don't try to install any of the proper drivers for it!!

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Antony Neu (antony-neu) said : 		#2

Have you checked under System-> Administration -> Hardware Drivers ?

I have a similar problem with my ATI HD4850 card: A driver is listed but cannot be activated. Used to work in Jaunty, perhaps a bug.

You could check on the ATI Homepage if there is a driver available for your card. This one will have to be installed manually.

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Daniel Cornea (danok-cornea) said : 		#3

my ubuntu does not work quite well without a video driver ok thanks for answer

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

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Joseph Crowell (smokexyz) said : 		#5

Help with the open source ATI legacy drivers on Ubuntu 9.10:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

Follow that guide to the point where it links to "KMS with a Radeon card" then follow the link to here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting
and follow the instructions in the section KMS with a radeon card.

This worked perfectly for me on my ATI Radeon Xpress 200M.

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Joseph Crowell (smokexyz) said : 		#6

Help with the open source ATI legacy drivers on Ubuntu 9.10:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

Follow that guide to the point where it links to "KMS with a Radeon card" then follow the link to here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting
and follow the instructions in the section KMS with a radeon card.

This worked perfectly for me on my ATI Radeon Xpress 200M.