Has anyone been successful installing the latest Catalyst for Linux (11.7)

I've tride downloading it twice once on the Linux box and once on my Win7 machine and I am getting the same MD5 mismatch error...

This is a bit weird, but did you compare the checksums of your downloads? Did you go ahead and install anyway? If space is the issue, download it and run
md5sum download >file1
Next time use
md5sum download >file2
diff file1 file2

A number of things were going on...

First, I don't remeber seeing the Checksums posted on the AMD site. So, no, I didn't compare Checksums.

Secondly, Catalyst 11.7 is the wrong one and no longer supprts the Radeon 9200 Series. I need to use 8.8.x instead and there is some question as to whether I can use it with Ubuntu.

Third, and most importantly, the Checksum error *was* because of my hardware. Not sure which sub-system. But, I was running 10% Over-Clock and MemTest86 passed a complete run. So, I figured that all was well.

As soon as I lowered the system back to Standard... The checksum issue disappeared.

Moral, just because you have an unlocked Intel CPU, doesn't mean *all* of it will run faster than Intel tested it at.

No, you can't. You have to use the open source radeon driver, which is installed by default.

One pass is never enough on an overclocked system. The opinions differ how much passes you should run, but I tend to run it at least 24 hours to see if it is stable enough. And you never can be sure.

But, does the open source version support the TV Tuner Section?

It sure won't run Unity, and surely a 3Ghz P4 with 4GB of Ram is enough to run Unity?

Note: I am a Linux Newbie...


Is there an app I can use to test the Tuner section *other* than MythTV?

I don't know about the tuner, but Unity is not processor dependent, it depends on the graphics card. But a Radeon 9200 should be sufficient for Unity, I would think.

The 9200 is old 8-10 years old IIRC. Your problem is going to be getting that happy with modern software.

I've had no problems with the ATI 9600XT with recent distros. I've also got nVidia cards about the same age (GF4-MX440) that are also 100%, and a few even older intel video adapters (i810) that run just fine.

I have a nvidia mx-440, and it works well, but there can be problems with them. Hence, I don't use mine. Specifically, it replaces mesa libs. I was using version 96.43.xxxx and it threw in a number of mesa libs. Mesa-7.?

As mesa advances, more calls are implemented better. I managed to get some undesirable issues and switched to OSS & ati.