gatos and ATI 1st msg (Jonathan Kaye)

[Jonathan Kaye]

Christophe Guilbert wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan,
> 
> I don't even know myself what I really want because I am lost ;-) (I am
> a linux guy for 10 years) I love Linux (installed on my 7 computers at
> home) but I am kind of tired of reading how things works now.
> Anyway the confusion comes from  that gatos is also supposed to be a
> driver for my video card , and  they  are at least 3 drivers for my
> video card, the one provide by gatos should be ATI (in xorg.conf), and
> apparently merge with the official xorg 7.xx driver. but when you google
> for gatos/kubuntu, you find patches and link provided. you are said to
> find the last patch in some ftp/directory wich are reading protected so
> you can't see the latest patch. In any case , I assume that if gatos
> come with kubuntu , you should not need to patch it.
> Any way , this is the jungle to me !
> 
> I'll try to read more about gatos  and definitely run those exe your
> mention.
> 
> Thanks a lots for your help.
> 
> Chris
>>
Hi Chris,
First I must admit that I don't use (K)ubuntu but rather Debian, so I'm not
familiar with (K)ubuntu-specific stuff. However I found that Gatos is also
a Debian package. Anyway I have an ATI Radeon 9550 series graphics card so
that's why I was interested in your query. If all you want is to get a
proper driver for the card, then I don't understand why you want Gatos.
Maybe I'm missing something here. I just use the drivers supplied by ATI
which you can find here:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
There are a number of steps you need to follow but I can go through them if
you're interested. The result is I have a nice running driver with 3D
graphics enabled.
Cheers,
Jonathan