Video Card Drivers
 

I can't seem to get the correct video driver for my ATI Radeon SDR(32mb). I"m using Slack 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18 and the kernel showed that ATI Radeon is supported.

But when I'm in xf86config to setup X, I don't see this driver listed, ATI Radeon only.

Any suggestions/ideas?

Thnx.

Try the general Radeon driver... Might work. ;) Are you sure you're going through the really long list of drivers (more than 10 pages)?

Furthermore, visit ATI's web site, they just might have Linux drivers... NVidia does...

P.S. What do you think about your ATI card? Is it any good? How do you think it compares to an nVidia card of a comparable class?

Take a look at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=22010

The initial video card is different from the one you have, but the procedure given should work fine for you.

j.

Thanks for the replies. When I use the xf86config to configure my vc, I never see ATI Radeon only server. I do see a large list of other ATI servers. I haven't tried that xf86free -configure command yet, but will give it a try.


To Sewer_Monkey, on my other box I do have an TNT nvidia card and it was pretty good. I think this Radeon is the older model and they both seems the same to me. From what I read/hear about the newer Nvidia's cards, I think they are much better then the newer ATI cards.

Both of mine have 32mb of video ram, maybe higher memory on the cards would make a better difference. But, I'm not a gamer so it doesn't matter to me.

Thnx.

FYI: ATI currently doesn't support Radeon drivers for linux, there are some 3rd party radeon drivers that you can install and they do give links to these websites on the ATI website.