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RjNeLLY
December 18th, 2009, 06:44 PM
WSSUP FELLAS! NEED SOME ADVICE...JUST UPGRADED OS TO UBUNTU 9.10. INSTALLATION WAS SWIFT BUT I GUESS MY CARD DOESNT SUPPORT MY OLD GRAPHIC CARD (ATI RADEON 9200). ITS GIVING ME AN ERROR OF "DESKTOP EFFECTS COULD NOT BE ENABLED". I WAS WONDERING IF I CAN GET A NEW GRAPHIC CARD AND WHAT WOULD BE BEST TO GET FOR UBUNTU 9.10....MY OLD COMPUTER IS A SONY VAIO PCV RS520....APPRECIATE ALL THE HELP...THANKS:guitar:

akashiraffee
December 18th, 2009, 07:36 PM
That card will work if you you go to system->administration (or preferences, I'm not ubuntu right now)->HARDWARE DRIVERS

This is for "proprietary drivers". You want to install/activate the ATI catalyst driver.