3d screen saver

[Larry Hartman]

Lokeey:

This is really an ATI video driver related question.  I've been down the ATI 
road before.  It looks like the card that you have is not the one that causes 
the most troubles for people (that one is the Radeon 200M series).  To set my 
card up for LINUX I went through various websites and forums to sort it all 
out, but I have that rather infamous card I referred to.  I don't think you 
will have the same difficulties.

The Ubuntu repositories do offer the ATI driver; however, it is several 
versions old and the newer versions do have some bug fixes in them.  The 
latest ATI driver can be found at the ATI website for download (first website 
below).  After that, the other sites listed offer how to's and pointers for 
troubleshooting and additional features.  I recommend reading through the 
material on the websites really well before diving in.

Larry


ATI driver website:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-firegl.html

Dapper Installation Guide:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide

Edgy Installation Guide:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Edgy_Installation_Guide#Method_2:_Generating.2FInstalling_Ubuntu_packages_for_the_new_8.29.6_drivers_in_Ubuntu_Edgy_Manually

Ubuntu HOWTO:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI#head-c966b2cb7c82944d6883f27a2896725db3b90a3a

Ubuntu Forum--Help with ATI and no DRI problem?:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=289100&highlight=ati+200m

Ubuntu Forum--ATI Big-desktop:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1773544


On Saturday 03 February 2007, Lokeey wrote:
> hey all, what do i need to do to get my 3D to work. i see in xorg.conf that
> kubuntu recognized my monitor, but i had to adjust the view because it had
> it set to 1280x1024 and i have a widescreen monitor that goes up to
> 1400x900, but i'm trying to get 3D to work. i've looked in the repos, but i
> don't see any ATi drivers.
>
> i'm using ATi 9600 DVI and i wasn't able to find fglrx in the repos as
> well.
>
> any suggestions?