i just installed and activated the drivers for my graphics card so i can play fofix (it will only play smoothly when the driver is activated) but when the driver is activated the AMD unsupported hardware watermark is there in the corner how do i get rid of it

when i tried to run the game without activating the driver it ran slow and the colors were all wrong

I have never seen any watermark when using either the proprietary driver and open source driver for ATI graphics cards. If you see one, then it is the stupid game you are playing. Though ATI proprietary driver for Linux does not include all OpenGL instruction that ATI advertises, so expect a lot of problems when playing games.

alright i'll stick to playing frets on fire in windows (i hate windows7 its really confusing but thats my opinion everyone has their own)

its hard to obtain a picture of the thing but here is the best that i can do
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...e=amd_rv790_93

ps: frets on fire worked fine in pclinuxos 2009.1 but the distro won't work with my machine so i went with ubuntu

Like I said in my previous post, it is ATI's poor software writing. Also the maintainer may cause additional issues. I suggest try the open source driver from Xorg or freedesktop.org. If you still want to use the proprietary ATI driver, mark the version you are using as bad and use a different version preferably the version that you can compile. The following explains about ATI's poor writing habits.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=NTkwNg

Any distribution should work with any computer. The difference between one distribution and to the next is the kernel version. Some might be update to date while others may not.

it just so happens that the new version of ubuntu lucid lynx has compatibility for this video card without the ugly watermark logo in the corner, it also seems to work with my dvd burner karmik koala wasn't really stable theres just some bootup problems sometimes but thats suppossed to go into another post