jimmyboy09
April 26th, 2009, 11:07 PM
Hallo der.
I have an ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 vid card on my laptop. After upgrading to jaunty, I initially installed the proprietary ATI driver (fglrx) and consequently, my laptop did not work. So I uninstalled the proprietary driver, and here I am.
After looking through many threads, I [U]think[U] that I have two options:
1) Manually install the restricted driver (Catalyst 9.4) from ATI's website via download & deb.
2) Just go ahead and use the open-source driver by changing the xorg.conf file so that the "Device" section specifies using driver "ati"
So first, are these two options even viable ones? And if so, which is the better route? I'm not exactly dying to use compiz again, but life on the dull side seems pretty boring right now :)
I have an ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 vid card on my laptop. After upgrading to jaunty, I initially installed the proprietary ATI driver (fglrx) and consequently, my laptop did not work. So I uninstalled the proprietary driver, and here I am.
After looking through many threads, I [U]think[U] that I have two options:
1) Manually install the restricted driver (Catalyst 9.4) from ATI's website via download & deb.
2) Just go ahead and use the open-source driver by changing the xorg.conf file so that the "Device" section specifies using driver "ati"
So first, are these two options even viable ones? And if so, which is the better route? I'm not exactly dying to use compiz again, but life on the dull side seems pretty boring right now :)