So you decided to install Ultimate Edition,and have an ATI graphics card.Your wondering how do I install my driver now?Well first you have to know what kind you have.Once you figured that out take a look at this.
from ATI...
The following products have been moved to the legacy software support structure (including Mobile and All-in-Wonder Variants):
ATI Radeon 9500 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
ATI Radeon X550 Series
ATI Radeon X600 Series
ATI Radeon X700 Series
ATI Radeon X800 Series
ATI Radeon X850 Series
ATI Radeon X1050 Series
ATI Radeon X1300 Series
ATI Radeon X1550 Series
ATI Radeon X1600 Series
ATI Radeon X1650 Series
ATI Radeon X1800 Series
ATI Radeon X1900 Series
ATI Radeon Xpress Series
ATI Radeon X1200 Series
ATI Radeon X1250 Series
ATI Radeon X2100 Series
AMD may periodically provide Windows XP and Windows Vista driver updates (for the products listed above) for critical fixes only. No new features will be provided in future driver updates. The Linux ATI Catalyst™ driver will only be supported in Linux distributions prior to February 2009 for the legacy products listed above.
Any customers using a combination of a ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, or ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series product with any of the legacy products listed above in a single PC system must use the ATI Catalyst 9.3 or earlier driver. All future ATI Catalyst™ releases made available past the ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 release will not include support for the legacy products listed above or any of the features associated with those legacy products.
Well now your thinking "what do I do now?" its simple...nothing.You might be thinking "well how is this all working without a driver?"
This is where the old users should read if you haven't been on top of the new xorg.
Its simple...in a nut shell the new xorg. will (should) pick the the driver you need."Well thats cool how do I edit the xorg.conf file to tweak the driver?" Again...you do nothing.The xorg.conf file is non existent in Ultimate Edition 2.4. Go ahead try to find it So...basically What you have after you reboot from an install is the performance your going to get.I said basically...There are other repos you can enable to get the most up to date driver.Also there's newer kernels to go with those drivers.Ill get into this later.
You might have two cards in crossfire.If your card runs in the ATI list above you will not have crossfire (like mine).
Now your either wary of all this(the new user),or your still cursing ATI(the older users ) I would normally fall into the later...but so far I'm not.The new open source driver works great...better than in the past.Thank you Devs I can play the native games with decent fps's (wine is still getting there.Soon there will be better 3d support with games played in wine),I can use all the eye candy,I have no video tearing.ect. For the first time sense Jaunty I have not needed to "tweak" the driver to get anything working.(nothing that is Linux native)
I hope this helped a bit.I know my results might be different.Thats why we have this specific thread,so go ahead,and post if there are issues. Take note that all the above covers the cards in the list from ATI.If you have a hd card then you will be able to install the FGLRX driver from Jockey(hardware drivers),or the driver from ATI's web site.
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