help needed! checking gpu driver

[pinoy_kubuntu_user]

How to check if i already have a gpu driver and other drivers, my pc has x1950pro agp for its gpu. I installed kubuntu 12.04, the Precise Pangolin release. TIA

[rms]

How to check if i already have a gpu driver and other drivers, my pc has x1950pro agp for its gpu. I installed kubuntu 12.04, the Precise Pangolin release. TIA

Hi,

Menu->System->Additional Drivers if you haven't done that already.

[pinoy_kubuntu_user]

Hi,

Menu->System->Additional Drivers if you haven't done that already.

Hello,

It says "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system." then it has 2 white blank textboxes.

[rms]

Hello,

It says "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system." then it has 2 white blank textboxes.

Do yo see anywhere in the dialog that ATI/AMD drivers for your gpu are offered for installation?

[pinoy_kubuntu_user]

Do yo see anywhere in the dialog that ATI/AMD drivers for your gpu are offered for installation?

Nothing sir. here's my screenshot

[rms]

Nothing sir. here's my screenshot [ATTACH=CONFIG]3281[/ATTACH]

I see... now, I don't remember whether these fields were blank for me too or not but you can install it from Muon Package Manager(also in System menu). Just type fglrx in the search field to find it, and after install re-check Additional Drivers to see if it shows anything in now empty boxes.

Cheers!

[ardvark71]

Hello pinoy...

Welcome to the forums

Another way of checking is by open a terminal (Konsole, for example) and typing in the following command...

jockey-text -l

and give it a few seconds to come up with the information. Also found this. You might get better performance and results if you install the proprietary "fglrx" driver as opposed to using the open source one, which I'm guessing is what you're using. If it's possible (as your card is considered "legacy" by AMD,) and you choose this option, one way would be to see if you can download and install the "fglrx," "fglrx-amdcccle" and. optionally, if your computer is a laptop, "radeontool" (use "radeontool" at your own risk, has not been fully audited and may damage your hardware) packages. I see them using Synaptic but you might be able to see them using Muon, too. The other option would be to try installing AMD's Catalyst driver here. (32 and 64 bit.) Since this is a legacy driver, it may not work with 12.04.

Hope this helps...

[pinoy_kubuntu_user]

Hello pinoy...

Welcome to the forums

Another way of checking is by open a terminal (Konsole, for example) and typing in the following command...

jockey-text -l

and give it a few seconds to come up with the information. Also found this. You might get better performance and results if you install the proprietary "fglrx" driver as opposed to using the open source one, which I'm guessing is what you're using. If it's possible (as your card is considered "legacy" by AMD,) and you choose this option, one way would be to see if you can download and install the "fglrx," "fglrx-amdcccle" and. optionally, if your computer is a laptop, "radeontool" (use "radeontool" at your own risk, has not been fully audited and may damage your hardware) packages. I see them using Synaptic but you might be able to see them using Muon, too. The other option would be to try installing AMD's Catalyst driver here. (32 and 64 bit.) Since this is a legacy driver, it may not work with 12.04.

Hope this helps...

im building my htpc with some spare hw. thanks for all the help, ill try it later and hope it works

[PJK]

If you're not really experiencing any artifacts on screen or any other video issues, I wouldn't really worry about installing a different driver, especially something experimental either. For now, I would start by showing us the output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Open up Konsole, and run this command to make it accessible and ready to be attached to forums:

cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/Desktop/Xorg.0.txt

You should now have a file called Xorg.0.txt on your desktop, reply to this thread with that attached so we can look at it. Cheers.

[pinoy_kubuntu_user]

If you're not really experiencing any artifacts on screen or any other video issues, I wouldn't really worry about installing a different driver, especially something experimental either. For now, I would start by showing us the output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Open up Konsole, and run this command to make it accessible and ready to be attached to forums:

cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/Desktop/Xorg.0.txt

You should now have a file called Xorg.0.txt on your desktop, reply to this thread with that attached so we can look at it. Cheers.

@ardvark71, radeon drivers seem to work with my legacy card, cheers
@PJK, sir here is my xorg log, hoping radeon drivers is doing its job, cheers Xorg.0.txt

[ardvark71]

Hi Pinoy...

Cool!

[PJK]

Yeah, your Xorg.0.log says that it loaded the ATI drivers, and it detected your card to be a 1950:

[ 20.969] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon X1950" (ChipID = 0x7280)