After purchasing my new computer from newegg and constructing it i installed kubuntu 7.10 gusty all was well and good in the world for me. Linux ran fine i has some hic-ups with my wireless card but that was it. All together for my first major install of Linux it worked good i was able to watch anime and look at my porn find and dandy.
Forward to this month, i wanted to start play some games bought an ATI Radeon 3850hd. tom's hardware suggested it as one of the better ones out.
I had herd news about ati releaseing a open sorce driver for there stuff so i was excited to use it under linux. sadly i didn't know that news was bad news
and hearing that fact the Nvidia has better support for linux now is lost on me - oh well live and learn
any ways i started to go through this walk through...
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide
even made sure i had all the programs on this page...
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206..._82_linux.html
After installing the driver with adept i fast fowarded to this part...
Alternative: Configure the Driver, The Manual Way:
An alternative to the "sudo aticonfig" commands is to edit "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and change the "Device" section for the video card as shown below. This way you won't lose your old settings.
gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
[...]
# Driver "vesa"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
[...]
EndSection
i changed xorg.config and pasted it back into the x11 dir and then did a sudo reboot in the terminal i had open. i starts back up gets past the book screen...
BAM terminal whats your log-in and password. alls i could do at this point was bang my head aginst my desk cus i know jack about linux command line.
i've been boiling over linuxcommand.org so i could at least get back to the directory and at least rename the copy of my previous config file back to normal so i could get back into the GUI and actually still use my computer while i boil over getting it to work again.
i had no idea on how i would navigate the command line to get back to that directory and rename the file. if some one could provide the harder commands like changing from your home directory to the root one so i can get into ect/apt/x11. and then the command to rename the other find from xorg.conf.rnamesomethingorother to xorg.conf
or heck even some help just getting it working so i can play WoW would be great this graphics's card is to bad ass to leave it just running animes and not playing games :P
Not that i'm completely afraid of the command line but would reinstalling now cause me to loose any data on my partition i moved some stuff over to reformat my external HD and i would rellaly hate loosing it if i had to reinstall
if you need any more info please please tell me what would help you out cus i have no idea whats going on
-icy
Forward to this month, i wanted to start play some games bought an ATI Radeon 3850hd. tom's hardware suggested it as one of the better ones out.
I had herd news about ati releaseing a open sorce driver for there stuff so i was excited to use it under linux. sadly i didn't know that news was bad news
and hearing that fact the Nvidia has better support for linux now is lost on me - oh well live and learn
any ways i started to go through this walk through...
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide
even made sure i had all the programs on this page...
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206..._82_linux.html
After installing the driver with adept i fast fowarded to this part...
Alternative: Configure the Driver, The Manual Way:
An alternative to the "sudo aticonfig" commands is to edit "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and change the "Device" section for the video card as shown below. This way you won't lose your old settings.
gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
[...]
# Driver "vesa"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
[...]
EndSection
i changed xorg.config and pasted it back into the x11 dir and then did a sudo reboot in the terminal i had open. i starts back up gets past the book screen...
BAM terminal whats your log-in and password. alls i could do at this point was bang my head aginst my desk cus i know jack about linux command line.
i've been boiling over linuxcommand.org so i could at least get back to the directory and at least rename the copy of my previous config file back to normal so i could get back into the GUI and actually still use my computer while i boil over getting it to work again.
i had no idea on how i would navigate the command line to get back to that directory and rename the file. if some one could provide the harder commands like changing from your home directory to the root one so i can get into ect/apt/x11. and then the command to rename the other find from xorg.conf.rnamesomethingorother to xorg.conf
or heck even some help just getting it working so i can play WoW would be great this graphics's card is to bad ass to leave it just running animes and not playing games :P
Not that i'm completely afraid of the command line but would reinstalling now cause me to loose any data on my partition i moved some stuff over to reformat my external HD and i would rellaly hate loosing it if i had to reinstall
if you need any more info please please tell me what would help you out cus i have no idea whats going on
-icy