The Mobility Radeon 9800 is not based on the R300-generation GPU core, but rather the R420 core that powers the company's impressive X800 XT and X800 Pro GPUs. For reasons of power, heat and cost, this mobile version of the R420 has eight pixel pipelines and four vertex pipes

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic∏=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=2&submit.y=5&submit=GO!

use ATIs Proprietary Linux Driver 3.11.1

your grafik card has a x800 core.

Linuxer - Thank you for the response.

I had tried using the 3.11.1 fglrx driver with Gentoo 2004.2.  Everything looked like it worked (no error messages), but the screen was just blank inside X.  I could still kill X wiht ctl-alt-backspace.  But I could never get it to work.  That was using X.org.

Any ideas on what to try next - I was thinking about trying a different distro, just to see if it works.  Any thoughts...

Thanks

Ati has releases new Linux drivers. (3.12.0)
and yes they are supporten your x800 core 9800card

RADEONâ„¢ X800 (AGP only)
RADEONâ„¢ 9700 series
RADEONâ„¢ 9800 series
RADEONâ„¢ 9500 series
RADEONâ„¢ 9600 series
RADEONâ„¢ 9100 series
RADEONâ„¢ 9200 series
RADEONâ„¢ 8500 series
RADEONâ„¢ 9000 series

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@azcoder wrote:

I recently upgraded to an XPS with a 9800 Mobility.  The problem is I cannot find any driver support for Linux.  Has anyone had any success using this card on Linux?

Thanks for any insight...

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hi excuse me for my spell im italian i hava the same problem... i have a inspirom 9100 with mobility radeon 9800 in sistem suse linux 9.1 with kde 3.2 i can't configire right.. please if you find a driver for this video card send me a message my mail addres peppepino@hotmail.com thank for your time good luck bye