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Old 08-26-2005, 04:09 AM   #1
timalan
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Question download ATI Driver for linux doesn't download right


when downloading ATI Linux driver it loads up in browser all gibbish...
meaning it doesn't download it as a binary file it downloads it as a txt file or something like that...
i tried highlighted all that gibbish and saving it as another file but it says if you save this file it will become corrupted....
how can i download that file so its a binary file so i can install it??
thanks all for your help!
 
Old 08-26-2005, 09:10 AM   #2
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You have to right click on the file and choose "save link as".

I also had to do a chmod 755 on the file in order to run it (even as root). The rest of the instruction can be found in this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=356511
 
  


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