ATI cards and the "fglrx" driver

[Rutger van Haasteren]

The bottom one is adjusted by the aticonfig command from the first howto. So
you don't have to do anything anymore. You are done. Check it with the
fglrxinfo command. It will say you are using the fglrx ati driver. Good
luck!

Rutger



On 1/24/07, musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hola all,  long time lurker, first time poster - I've only just got my
> edgy install up and running.
>
> I've been using linux on and off for a few years, but this is the
> first real install I'm happy with.
>
> So, I've got this ATI video card (256MB PCIe x16 ATI Radeon X1300 Pro)
> and I'm in the process of installing beryl.
>
> When I first installed, I had trouble getting resolutions greater than
> 1024*786. After some searching I found this howto:
> http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Edgy_Installation_Guide  and
> managed to get 1280*1024
>
> According to
> http://lhansen.blogspot.com/2006/10/3d-desktop-beryl-and-xgl-on-ubuntu-edgy.html
> I should be looking in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for Driver, and replace all
> vesa etc with fglrx
>
> this is what I found:
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "ATI Technologies, Inc. ATI Default Card"
>         Driver      "vesa"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
>         Driver      "fglrx"
>         Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
>         Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
> EndSection
>
>
> my question is - should I be replacing the top entry as well as the
> second entry? The second entry was already like that...
>
> Cheers
>
> L.
>
>
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