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    Which ATI Drivers?

    I have a 2.8C GHz P4, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9800 AIW. I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu (using the 686 kernel now, though I still have 386 on here if I need it). My question is which ATI drivers should I be using? Should I use the proprietary ones from the ATI site, or use some drivers made by the Linux community?

    Whichever route I take, I need them to work with World of Warcraft and other games running with Cedega or Wine. I'd also like to play some of the nicer games (free and otherwise) that are made to run natively on Linux. I can't think of any specific names right now, but I remember seeing a few that were open source earlier today.

    Can you guys point me in the right direction? Also, I'm installing Cedega now (haven't done my video card drivers yet), so if I need to change a configuration file for that to get it running with Wow, please let me know. Thanks!

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    Re: Which ATI Drivers?

    Read the many howto on installing ATI dirivers it the howto forum.

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    Re: Which ATI Drivers?

    I've gone through every HOWTO I can find. I installed the drivers from ATI, but I don't think my computer is actually using them. I run glxgears and I get ~350 FPS. Here's my xorg.conf:

    Code:
    # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
    #
    # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
    # values from the debconf database.
    #
    # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
    # (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
    #
    # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
    # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
    # package.
    #
    # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
    # again, run the following commands:
    #
    #   cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom
    #   sudo sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf >/var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum'
    #   sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
    
    Section "Files"
    	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
    	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
    	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
    	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
    	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
    	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
            # paths to defoma fonts
    	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
    	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Module"
    	Load	"bitmap"
    	Load	"dbe"
    	Load	"ddc"
    	Load	"dri"
    	Load	"extmod"
    	Load	"freetype"
    	Load	"glx"
    	Load	"int10"
    	Load	"record"
    	Load	"type1"
    	Load	"vbe"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
    	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
    	Driver		"keyboard"
    	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
    	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
    	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc104"
    	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
    	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
    	Driver		"mouse"
    	Option		"CorePointer"
    	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
    	Option		"Protocol"		"ExplorerPS/2"
    	Option		"Buttons"		"7"
    	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
    	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9800 Pro (R350 NH)"
    	Driver		"fglrx"
    	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
    	Option          "NoDCC"
            Option          "VideoOverlay"  "on"
            Option          "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
            Option          "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
            VideoRam        131072
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
    	Identifier	"NX85LCD"
    	Option		"DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
    	Identifier	"Default Screen"
    	Device		"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9800 Pro (R350 NH)"
    	Monitor		"NX85LCD"
    	DefaultDepth	24
    	SubSection "Display"
    		Depth		1
    		Modes		"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    	EndSubSection
    	SubSection "Display"
    		Depth		4
    		Modes		"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    	EndSubSection
    	SubSection "Display"
    		Depth		8
    		Modes		"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    	EndSubSection
    	SubSection "Display"
    		Depth		15
    		Modes		"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    	EndSubSection
    	SubSection "Display"
    		Depth		16
    		Modes		"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    	EndSubSection
    	SubSection "Display"
    		Depth		24
    		Modes		"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
    	EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
    	Identifier	"Default Layout"
    	Screen		"Default Screen"
    	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
    	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
    EndSection
    
    Section "DRI"
    	Mode	0666
    EndSection
    I know you guys get a lot of ATI questions here, and I've looked through dozens of threads, but they all went unanswered or I couldn't use the posted solution. I think I have WoW ready to go except for 3D acceleration not being set up on my machine!

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