ATI mobility radeon X1300 supported on debian etch (4)?
hi there,
after a lot of reading on distrowatch.com , i finally decieded on debian as my choice of linux distro. i will be installing it pretty soon, but before i do i have this some questions. i have used 1. does the X Window System have support for ATI mobility radeon X1300? (cos i had an error when i tried ubuntu live cd, x windows system couldnt start) 2. if i encounter problems on the graphics, what is the work around. i have downloaded the driver from the ATI (AMD) site. specs dell insperon E1505 Core 2 duo 2.0Ghz 4MB cache L2 2GB RAM 160GB HDD ATI mobility radeon X1300 all other godies(blue tooth, wifi,lan,etc) thanks for reading. Ally |
If you install the driver from ATI it should work just fine.
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I doubt if you'll be able to compile the module for ATI's latest driver in Etch since it requires a newer version of libc6. The fglrx driver in Etch (8.28.8, I believe) does support that card, though.
If your only Linux experience is one tryout of the Ubuntu Live CD, you may be in for quite a bumpy ride with Debian. |
I have the ATI Radeon X1300 from Dell in a desktop (it is not the ATI mobility). The only way I can get it to work is with the vesa driver.
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From personal experience, I know that the fglrx-driver in Lenny (8.38.6-2) reqires the 2.6.22 kernel to compile correctly. As yet that kernel is not available in Lenny which complicates things a bit. Sid includes the 8.40.4-2 driver for AMD64 and the 8.38.6-2 driver for i386. To the best of my knowledge those drivers are flawless with the current Sid kernel. Some General Advice regarding ATI fglrx Drivers |
I have looked at that also. However when I look at lspci I find the problem, the card is listed as X1300/X1550 and the X1550 is not yet supported by the fglrx driver.
I do have some hope after reading some of the hype AMD has released about the next fglrx drivers. |
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