[Dapper] ATI Radeon : installing proprietary drivers ?

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> writes:

> You misunderstood, the fglrx driver _is_ ATi's proprietary binary
> driver. And yes, they are known for being pretty crappy, but are the
> only way to get 3D hardware acceleration on most ATi cards. The free
> driver is called "ati" in the xorg.conf file, and is in the package
> xserver-xorg-driver-ati. IIRC the ati driver supports 3D hardware accel
> only for a few select older ATi chips

There's also a "radeon" driver (and manpage), but it seems to be
loaded by "ati" as I look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log .