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[How-To] ATI open source driver installation
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NOTE: Because of the changes to the xserver in Karmic and other newer distros this guide is not 100% accurate anymore. I will update as soon as I figure out a fail safe way of configuring X.
This is a short guide on how to get the ATI open source drivers installed. This guide targets Ubuntu, but should work for any distro too. There are currently 2 open source drives for ATI cards: radeon and radeonhd. Ubuntu comes with radeon installed by default, but radeonhd is easily obtained with Synaptic (just search for it and install it). Depending on your distro a different version of the drivers may be available, so check the respective driver's wiki for information on what is supported in what version. (the following assumes a "virgin" xorg.conf) If you need to generate a fresh copy of your xorg.conf (advisable) simply run the following from the terminal: Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Code:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf Code:
Driver "radeon" #or radeonhd 4.- Reboot Provided your card is supported by the driver, you should now have working 2D/3D. Disclaimer: Recent distros are deprecating the xorg.conf file. I will leave the above steps for those still using older versions of Ubuntu/Debian. In newer distros without a xorg.conf (like Karmic) you will need to generate a fresh copy first. 1.- Boot into safe mode (or kill X) and drop to command prompt mode. "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" no longer works on the newer versions of X, so generate a new file with the command: Code:
sudo Xorg -configure Code:
sudo mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/ Code:
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new 5.- Save the file and rename it xorg.conf so X can recognize it. 6.- Reboot your system or simply restart X. Notes: * These drivers do not have complete support for all cards. Check their respective wikis for support information. * These drivers tend to have much better 2D acceleration and accelerated movie playback than fglrx. Compiz and other composite managers are perfectly usable too. * Don't expect awesome 3D performance. In my testing, radeon has 20-50% the speed of fglrx. * Currently the drivers do not accelerate OpenGL2.x in hardware. Some applications (like WINE) rely heavily on OpenGL2.x functionality. Links of interest: radeon wiki radeonhd wiki
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Nice work there Melcar - I'm sure it will come handy to many people.
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