[Dapper] ATI Radeon : installing proprietary drivers ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 23:02 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 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


Ah, looks like I wasted money then... :-(

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Vince