X driver for ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro
 

Hello All,

I am so new to linux and this forum that I don't actually have linux installed yet. My problem is that I have just bought an Xtreme laptop from Rock-Direct which has the ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro. From what I can discern so far, I couldn't have chosen a worse graphics card to port linux on to. My fear is that I won't be able to even complete a linux installation without coming a cropper.

So in the first instance, has anyone out there found a solution, or is anyone working on a solution? Failing that any advice help on my path away from Uncle Billy and his forces of darkness?

Many thanks, in advance, for your responses.

Rich

The ATi linux driver supports this chip.

Bern,

Thanks for the link. I had previously looked at the ATi site and I note the Linux drivers are for the non-mobility Radeon chips.

Would you clarify that these drivers will indeed work for a mobility/laptop implementation?

Kind regards,
Richard

From the ATi readme0370.txt file,

Bern, you're a star! Many thanks.

Rich

PS. you would have thought ATi would put a notice on the mobile linux driver page to say that some mobile support is provided through the non-mobile drivers.

My Dell Inspiron 5100 has the Radeon Mobility 7500. Know of which Linux driver to use for it?