<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew East</b> <<a href="mailto:mdke@ubuntu.com">mdke@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Has someone got an ATI or NVIDIA graphics card that needs binary drivers<br>to work with 3d? If so, can they please check this section of the <br>Desktop guide for accuracy (none of the authors have such a card, and<br>can't check)?<br><br><a href="http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/hardware.html#graphics-cards">http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/hardware.html#graphics-cards </a></blockquote> <div> </div> <div>For older ATI cards, (rage128) the fglrx driver is not appropriate.  Just use the out-of-the-box dri.  Perhaps mention the names of the ATI cards that use the fglrx driver (radeon or better...)</div> <div> </div> <div>(this may be for another page altogether->) To get DRI to work on such older cards with not a lot of memory, you need to lower the color depth by</div> <div>sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop</div> <div>sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg</div> <div>Select 15 or 16-bit color and a lower-than-maximum resolution to conserve memory (800x600 at 15-bit for a 4 MEG card)</div> <div>sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>For nvidia cards, please also mention the legacy packages.  Nvidia TNT cards don't work with the nvidia-glx packages.</div> <div>(nvidia-glx-legacy "TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra, GeForce, and GeForce2 chipsets")</div> <div> </div> <div> </div><br>azz</div> <div> </div>