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I had been trying to get the drivers from ATI working for several months now. Recently I decided to give it another try. I did a fresh install of Debian Etch, only a base system. I am using the amd64 arch, but everything should work for the other archs as well. I did an apt-get install gnome xorg. That is all I had before I began following several guides until I got it working with the below steps. Also I did all this as root so you may need to install fakeroot or something along those lines.
Then I downloaded the drivers from: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html(Select either Linux_x86 or Linux_x86_64, then Integrated/Motherboard, then Radeon Xpress 200)
After that make sure the driver is executable and then have it build the .debs:
Normally, I would recommend that people use the ATI drivers from Debian non-free rather than those from the ATI website. OTOH, you did get a newer version, and if it works, that's a good thing.
I've got AIGLX running with the 'radeon' driver. It works fine, except for pixel shading, which means no water effect. Transparent cube also gives me a huge hit on fps.
I've got the ATI Mobility Radeon 320M, on etch. I'm using the xorg-video-ati(or something along those lines) package, and then just change the driver to 'radeon' in your xorg.conf.
Last edited by microsoft/linux; 12-27-2006 at 11:18 PM.
does anybody knows how to install xgl using nvidia gforce 5500, i had to install my os 4 times playing with the kernel for my card and still can't use xgl
I've got the ATI Mobility Radeon 200M, on etch. I'm using the xorg-video-ati(or something along those lines) package, and then just change the driver in your xorg.conf.
I'm sorry, I was completely mistaken, I've got the Mobility Radeon 320M, sorry for the confusion. I'm really sorry to have led you on like that, but it was a complete accident, I'll edit my posts above to reflect that.
hey guys don't fight anymore, install ubuntu, i just installed 2 days ego and works cool, wowww i forgot to say that i was able to install beryl on debian etch x86_64 with my nvidia gforce 5500 just in case some one need help, jeje. a lot of googling.
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