[Dapper] ATI Radeon : installing proprietary drivers ?

Fri Apr 14 21:02:26 UTC 2006

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 22:37 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> So I would like to try the ATI binary drivers (I hear they exist ?),
> to
> see how they compare with the free fglrx 

You misunderstood, the fglrx driver _is_ ATi's proprietary binary
driver. And yes, they are known for being pretty crappy, but are the
only way to get 3D hardware acceleration on most ATi cards. The free
driver is called "ati" in the xorg.conf file, and is in the package
xserver-xorg-driver-ati. IIRC the ati driver supports 3D hardware accel
only for a few select older ATi chips