Fwd: ATI Radeon x850 XT Platinum Edition

[Tee Jay Rosene]

My only caveat, however, is that the fan on my card now seems to have revved
up a notch, compared to before, when I was using Windows and Kubuntu with
the generic drivers.
Does anyone know why this may be so? I'm not "extreme gaming" right now, but
merely typing text!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tee Jay Rosene <teejayrosene at gmail.com>
Date: 31-May-2007 20:30
Subject: Fwd: ATI Radeon x850 XT Platinum Edition
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Never mind! Actually, I'm pretty excited. I figured out the problem on my
own: I installed the "Restricted Drivers Manager" from the repos, even
though it's an Ubuntu application, and now my card is working great.
As soon as I rebooted I could see a difference right away. Also, in my "ATI
control" all the features are now enabled.
Wicked!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tee Jay Rosene <teejayrosene at gmail.com>
Date: 31-May-2007 20:05
Subject: Re: ATI Radeon x850 XT Platinum Edition
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com


Okay, I tried this, and it seems to have worked out except now in the "ATI
Control" part that is in my K menu I get the message "Driver does not
provide FireGL X11 extensions! Panel Components will operate only
partially."
Does anyone know what this means? More importantly, does anyone know what I
should do now?
Once I click "Okay," I get an ATI screen that is pretty sparse.


> An even quicker way to resolve this issue is the great addition to the
> > 7.04 Distro.  I am not 100% familiar with Kubuntu (I am a gnome fan
> > myself) but there should be access to "Restricted Drivers Manager" in
> the
> > KDE control panel.  One click and it will install the fglrx drivers that
> > will expand your desktop real estate.
>
>
>
> If it is not in the KDE Control Panel just fire up your package manager
> and
> search for fglrx.  Alternatively there is a very complete tutorial found
> here:   http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Feisty_Installation_Guide
>
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