Cant get a working ATI Radeon X1600 Driver!

[GodsDead]

Hey, cant get a proper driver for my ATI Radeon X1600
There are no proprietary drivers, i went to the ATI website and downloaded "ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run"
and ran that, but it gave me this output:


==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.28-11-generic; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro




So, do i need to fix this? or is there another way to get some proper drivers?

:)

[Longinus00]

Hey, cant get a proper driver for my ATI Radeon X1600
There are no proprietary drivers, i went to the ATI website and downloaded "ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run"
and ran that, but it gave me this output:


==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.28-11-generic; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro




So, do i need to fix this? or is there another way to get some proper drivers?

:)

If you're running Jaunty then there are no proprietary drivers for your card (R520 family). The open source ones are now the "proper" drivers.

[GodsDead]

Oh right, so how do i fix this error im getting then?
:)

[Enrique Rocha]

Hi. i have a ATI Radeon X1550, i have troubles installing the drivers from ati.com

I have running ubuntu 9.04 64 bit

Searching in varios blogs i encounter that our cards have a code name called R520 maybe if we search more about that we can find the solution

[osirisgothra]

just so everyone knows, its not like it used to be back in the day. You used to be able to buy a graphics card and use it nicely for 6 years, now days you are lucky to get 6 months of good support, even worse-- i hear ati/amd does not offer any extended specs for their cards and their drivers are closed source only, probably because people like M$ are feeding them paper on the side to do this so they can corner and dominate the market... as usual (absolute power corrupts, absolutely)

[3rdalbum]

Please don't bump old threads. Buy an Nvidia card instead as their drivers are better and supported longer.

[QIII]

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