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    ATI video driver catch-22

    I was setting up an old Gateway m675prr for my 8 year old grandson to use. It has an ATI Radeon 9600 (rv350) video chip.

    I loaded the 32bit version of Lucid on it and tried a few 3D games... no 3D The vga16fb driver had ben selected. The best fps that it could generate was around 10 fps. I went out to the ATI website to download the Radeon 9600 driver. The latest version of ATI's driver was 10.2, BUT, it did NOT support Radeon 9600 chips.. I downloaded a "legacy" version, 8.42, that did support the Radeon 9600 chip. Unfortunately, the legacy version did not support Lucid.

    I decided to try the fglrx driver from the repository. I was presented with show-stopping dependencies which prevented xorg-xserver-fglrx from being installed. So, I copied /etx/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe to xorg.conf and changed "Configured Video Device" from "fbdev" to "ati", and restarted the xserver.

    Stellarium went from 8-10fps to about twice that. Nothing to right home about, but just fast enough for an 8 year old to run TORCS! , but not as fast as fglrx driver used to run 3 or 4 years ago.

    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
    – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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    Re: ATI video driver catch-22

    Originally posted by GreyGeek
    I was setting up an old Gateway m675prr for my 8 year old grandson to use. It has an ATI Radeon 9600 (rv350) video chip.
    ATi has decided to abandon support for all pre Direct-X 10 cards, including the famous 9xxx series that previously ruled the video world. On the flip side, they have opened up the specs for these cards, so that the Open Source folks have a better chance of supporting them.

    Substantial changes by the Xorg folks also means that a lot of old drivers do not work in Lucid.

    As a result, a lot of good, useful hardware is being orphaned by these series of decisions. My last AGP card burned out recently so I had to buy new hardware anyway, but I hate to be forced into this by planned obsolescence.

    -HF
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      Re: ATI video driver catch-22

      No idea if it would work, but have you seen the Video vsync fix kwin super fast motion working post?
      Windows no longer obstructs my view.
      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
      "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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        Re: ATI video driver catch-22

        Originally posted by Snowhog
        No idea if it would work, but have you seen the Video vsync fix kwin super fast motion working post?
        add "nvidia-settings -l"
        for an ATI chip?
        "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
        – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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          Re: ATI video driver catch-22

          Well, I did say "No idea if it would work,"
          Windows no longer obstructs my view.
          Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
          "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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            Re: ATI video driver catch-22



            (lawyerly fine-print! )
            "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
            – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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              Re: ATI video driver catch-22


              Snowhog's day job is 'LAWYER' ??

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                Re: ATI video driver catch-22

                Well, if it is I am confident he is not of the subspecies "Lizard Lawyer"!
                "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
                – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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                  Re: ATI video driver catch-22

                  I have a day job?

                  Windows no longer obstructs my view.
                  Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
                  "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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                    Re: ATI video driver catch-22

                    Hey, growlebear, he has a nighttime job!
                    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
                    – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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                      Re: ATI video driver catch-22

                      Well, I wake up, shower, dress, and drive from here to there. I stop between here and there and have coffee. Then I continue, get there, and turn on the PC. I do stuff and then I leave there to come back here. Every fourteen days money appears in my bank account. Hmm. I guess that means I have a day job.
                      Windows no longer obstructs my view.
                      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
                      "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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                        Re: ATI video driver catch-22

                        IF you are in Alaska and it's daylight 6 months out of a year, how can you tell?
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                          Re: ATI video driver catch-22

                          GG, IIRC its been a little bit since i had that card in my computer, i had to massively tweak the xorg.conf file when using the "ati" driver. i think you can also use "radeon" as your driver for that card. i have never done so but its reported to support from the radeon 7000 up to newer ones, i would suspect that the older the card the better the driver would work.

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