ATI Mobility Radeon Linux Driver

Question

I seriously need a Linux driver for the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 in my Inspiron 5100. Most of the programs I run require 3D acceleration, but I don't have it. Where can I find it?

cmspaz · Answer

Try the 'ati' or 'radeon' drivers. You may have to mess with your xorg.conf to get them working with direct rendering, but with a card as old as yours, you won't find anything else.

bob350 · Answer

Howdy What distro ? If its Ubuntu, fire up sympatic manager. go to search. Put in video drivers,  then scroll down to the ati drivers under xorg I believe, you will have to read the discriptions to be sure. Bob

cmspaz · Answer

The xorg ATI drivers you speak of are the fglrx drivers, ATI's proprietary drivers.

They won't work as they don't support anything older than the radeon 9000 series.

Message Edited by cmspaz on 04-09-2007 08:03 AM

bob350 · Answer

Your right The O.P. needs 6.5 drivers & they look to be for windows only. :smileysad: Bob

cmspaz · Answer

If you installed whatever distro you're running from LiveCD, you should have the "ati" and "radeon" drivers already. To use them, you need to switch the driver from whatever it is in your xorg.conf. If I recall correctly, the "radeon" driver should work. You'll need to change the "driver" option under the "Device" tab for your video card in the xorg.conf. You'll probably need to do more than that, so look into any other changes that may need to be made, and make those two.

But remember, the first thing you should do is back up your xorg.conf.

ashketchum · Answer

You can try this wiki   http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Edgy_Installation_Guide   ashketchum

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