Install video card driver
 

Hi there,
I already installed the FlightGear game under my Fedora8_X64, but when launched it I got the CPU at 98%. After googling I understood that I must install video card's driver.
using lspci command I got :
$ /sbin/lspci
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]

Is this really the name of my video card?
How to install video card's driver?
Thanks for your help.

Well, it certainly is the name of someone's video card!!!
The two standard drivers for ATI are "ati" and "radeon". Both should be available in Fedora 8. First, look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see what you are using now. You are looking for something like this:
All this aside, I am not clear on how the choice of video driver would cause the CPU to be running excessively. Is the system otherwise running normally?

Here's part of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection



>>> I am not clear on how the choice of video driver would cause the CPU to be running excessively. Is the system otherwise running normally?

Only when I launch flightGear the CPU runs excessively. If i kill flightGear, the system works normally.

OK---does flightGear work?
While it's running, you could try ps -e to see what processes are running. The output includes the accumulated CPU time. (There are other ways to see what process is using the processor, but I don't have them in front of me.