need help with proprietary drivers for ati
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Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:31 pmby diablo10000
my wife has a gateway laptop with an ati radeon express 200M, and i'm having trouble in stalling it on her system. when i open the "play on linux" it says that there isn't a 3-D accelerator enabled. i've downloaded the driver from ati and the instructions to install it but it says to login as a super user in terminal. how do i go about logging in as a super user, i haven't setup a super user acct. and when i type a password for it nothing is being typed in the terminal. if i could login as a super user i might be able to install the driver from ati. i would appreciate any input available.
cheers
Re: need help with proprietary drivers for ati
Posted:
Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:52 pmby Time
diablo10000 wrote:my wife has a gateway laptop with an ati radeon express 200M, and i'm having trouble in stalling it on her system. when i open the "play on linux" it says that there isn't a 3-D accelerator enabled. i've downloaded the driver from ati and the instructions to install it but it says to login as a super user in terminal. how do i go about logging in as a super user, i haven't setup a super user acct. and when i type a password for it nothing is being typed in the terminal. if i could login as a super user i might be able to install the driver from ati. i would appreciate any input available.
cheers
Just type sudo (your command) then it will ask you for your password type it in and press enter.
It will look like you aren't typing anything when you put in the password but it is there
Re: need help with proprietary drivers for ati
Posted:
Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:32 pmby diablo10000
ok i'll try it thanx for the quick response, if i have anymore problems i'll let yall know
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Re: need help with proprietary drivers for ati
Posted:
Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:16 pmby Revro
hello i have following question.
i have currently radeon 9700 pro on my Ultimate Edition 2.5. linux version of urban terror goes perferkt 50-60+fps, but in wine i.e. ragnarok online goes very slow, maybe 5 fps.
anyway i am thinking about a new card, but it should be agp and should not take a lot of power from my power source so it probably means radeon 3450. do i have to uninstall something or just switch the cards and afterwards install via envy?
Thank you
Re: need help with proprietary drivers for ati
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Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:11 pmby red_team316
Can anyone else comment on the quality or hassle involved with ATI proprietary drivers? Acceptable 3D performance?
Re: need help with proprietary drivers for ati
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Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:22 pmby cowboy
Have run both ATI and Nvidia....not a real big choice for me...
Revro...by some slim chance are you running in Compiz when you are in Wine...? You will suffer performance if you are in any Games or Graphics....when in Compiz..
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver here is some reading