ATI Drivers For Linux
Posted Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:42:39 GMT to Posted in Geek Tags ati, drivers, linux
The other day ATI released new linux drivers for their Radeon cards, complete with a new graphical installer. In the past, I have had nothing but gried with ATI drivers, never successfully getting 3D acceleration working. However, this time, once I went through the process and ran the configuration, when the display server restarted, and I loaded up Tuxracer (hey, everyone uses it as an indication on whether acceleration is working), what I got was smoothe graphics.
Now, if the same process that I used on my lab machine works on my home machine, I might not need to use Windows anymore.
On a side note, my Windows machine has been running for almost 2 months now with no major problems, but since Win2k support is being discontinued, I wonder how long that is going to last.
ATI makes me angry.
So apparently my graphics card isn’t on the list of things supported by the new drivers…Or any drivers that aren’t at least 3 years old. Odd how I only bought my laptop three years ago. sighs
And its not a bad card either.