xorg & ATI

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:05:49PM -0700, Travis Hagglund wrote:
> OK, I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now, and I have accepted the
> fact that my limited knowledge of linux and the problems that the
> developers have in dealing with proprietary drivers will leave many
> areas for improvement on my desktop.  One of those areas is 3d
> acceleration for my ati radeon 9700.  I am presently running Hoary with
> the xorg radeon drivers, which gives me a nice dual head setup, but no
> 3d accel.  But now I understand that ati have released xorg drivers for
> my card.  Are these the same drivers Ubuntu has available as
> xorg-driver-fglrx?  I have installed that package but don't seem to have
> any fglrx drivers on my system.

xorg-driver-fglrx is the ATI binary drivers that have just been released, yes,
but these are apparently broken with newer Ubuntu kernels, and need an update.
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