ATI Radeon x1200 Motherboard intergration not getting detected

[grandmasterhack]

how to i get ubuntu to use my on board gfx card because it can't find it. games that run super fast in windows are bogged down(and proably rendering using the cpu) and it was enough for cube and cube 2.

any command i can use to scan for the mobo card or is it called something totally different than a VGA.

[grandmasterhack]

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[pme 72]

You could try sudo lshw -C video. That should return information on the enabled video device and driver in use.

[grandmasterhack]

command used:

sudo lshw -C video

output returned:

 *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=64
       resources: irq:18 memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:f8100000-f810ffff ioport:9000(size=256) memory:f8000000-f80fffff

how do i tell if I'm using the correct driver?

[Blasphemist]

It looks like you are using the open source driver, radeon. Look at this for what you may be able to do to test and tweak it. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

If you still can't get good enough performance, you could go to the closed source driver. This is the link on that. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

[Cristina Amazonas]

I have exactly the same video card ... and it is not properly working as well.
I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and don't want to upgrade it, will it work ?
As I could reead they mention the Maverick 10.10 version ...
Thanks !

[jocko]

If you still can't get good enough performance, you could go to the closed source driver. This is the link on that. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

Amd/ATI have not made any driver for that card for years, so there is no way that link can help.

[Yellow Pasque]

The best thing you can do for 3D performance is use the xorg-edgers PPA, and make sure you disable SwapBuffersWait in xorg.conf: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Cristina Amazonas]

I'm kind of lost

These instructions are not meant to be executed for beginners ...
Any script or step-by-step using only terminal commands ?

[Yellow Pasque]

First off, if you tried to install the proprietary ATI fglrx/Catalyst driver, see this: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...talyst.2Ffglrx

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Next, create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Copy,paste,save,exit,restart.

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Option "SwapbuffersWait" "false"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection