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ati radeon x1600 help
Hello I am in need of help i installed the ati driver from the adpet installer. My question is how the bloddy heck do i make it my default video driver? I try to make it do it under system settings but it keeps going back to vesa drivers.
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "circat" (Feb 17th 2008, 6:12am)
RE: ati radeon x1600 help
Oh man i messed up I clicked continue with these settings after i thought I got it to set radeon drivers and now when i log on i cant see any thing at all. fuddddddddge i messed up and dont want to reload os. Any way i can remove that driver thru the command line recovery mode? If so can you tell me how to?
RE: ati radeon x1600 help
just edit xorg.conf to go back to vesa and then reinstall the driver...
if you use ubuntu - sudo apt-get reinstall xorg-driver-fglrx && sudo dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xorg
if some other - go to ATI site, download their package, install it and then tweak xorg.conf
EDIT oh and if you're using ubuntu - you can install "restricted drivers manager" which will do everything for you
Hell ain't a bad place to be
This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "Burillo" (Feb 20th 2008, 8:08am)
RE: ati radeon x1600 help
ty for your help. After some researching i found that the drivers from ati do not work with my x1600. and low and behold they arent supporting or doing any thing about it so looks like i need a new vid card.
if you're talking about ATi Mobility x1600/x2500 which is what i myself got - it works. Not perfectly though, no direct rendering (so no compiz) but at least i have a full resolution.
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Thats what i have and yes I have full res. . but you cannot really play many games cause I cant get the 3d rendering to work. Thnks for the reply tho.
blame it on ATi :-))) we're lucky they support linux at all - few years back none of the new ATi gcards ever worked - only older crap... Something tells me they won't upgrade their driver to support direct rendering, so no 3d-effects and games on this one.
Hell ain't a bad place to be
well I say we boycot ati all together. I am goin nvidia. thx alot ati!!!!!!!!!
i would if i could - my laptop ain't new, it's my bros so i didn't have much of a choice here...)))
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bleh... wish big businesses wern't so dang worried about making money as they were making pc's fun again. I think thats why the prices r so cheap cause people don't want to mess with pc's any more cause they r more a head ache than any thing
well, the prices are cheap 'cos the production cost is cheap :-))) 50 years ago computers were waaaaay more expensive and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less efficient... 20 years ago computers were also incredibly fast, and the famous Bill Gates' "640k should be enough for everyone" looks especially funny now, when we have computers that are gazillion times faster than those used to control the flight to the Moon and we complain about lagging text editor...
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thats funny but very true. bagh any one know how to wright device drivers maybe some one in the community can wright a driver for the x1650 video card.
there are plenty knowledgeable and skilled dudes in the community - skilled enough to write a driver, but ATi is in no hurry releasing the specifications of it's gcards. And without knowing how exactly does it work no one is able to write any driver...
Hell ain't a bad place to be
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