3d screen saver

[Larry Hartman]

Hey that was quick!  Glad to see that this helped and you are up and running.

Under Dapper I had to install an older ATI driver than what the repository 
held in order to gain 3D.  When I upgraded to Edgy, that older version no 
longer worked and the version offered in Edgy repositories did not fix the 
bug.  About a month or two after Edgy was released ATI introduced a 
8.32.....magically the bug dissappeared without a word from ATI.  Those 
Radeon 200M cards are very common in a lot of HP/Compaq laptops, many people 
cheered when they were finally able to get their 3D back.  

The word on the street is that since ATI came under AMD, they have been slowly 
getting better at supporting the Linux community, but it has taken a bit of 
pressure, griping, etc. in order for them to come around--learning that their 
end user population is bigger than those who purchase/use that other OS.  Now 
if Broadcomm would start giving us support.....

Larry

On Sunday 04 February 2007, Lokeey wrote:
> thanx larry! that did the trick!
>
> On 2/3/07, Larry Hartman <larryhartman50 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > 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_Ubu
> >ntu_Edgy_Manually
> >
> > Ubuntu HOWTO:
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI#head-c966b2cb7c82
> >944d6883f27a2896725db3b90a3a
> >
> > 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.confthat 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?
> >
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