Jimnast
October 5th, 2008, 02:33 PM
Hello, I've just built a new pc, and it runs fine on windows, the only reason I installed linux is for university. My graphics card is an msi ati hd4850. Now I know as much about linux as a frog does about how an airplane is made. Moving on to the problem.
I've searched and searched, and done many many many things to get these ati drivers to work. Nothing works. I'm running ubuntu 8.04. The drivers seem to have installed, but when I type fglrxinfo in the terminal, I get:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2)
Now apparently, I've read that if mesa is there, than the drivers are not installed properly. However ati catalyst control center works. And it recognises that I have an 4800 series card. But when I enable desktop effects, (which I have to, because in firefox, when I scroll, the screen is choppy and moves at the pace of a snail) I get a white screen. And you can't do anything.
I really have no clue what to do. Any ideas?
I've searched and searched, and done many many many things to get these ati drivers to work. Nothing works. I'm running ubuntu 8.04. The drivers seem to have installed, but when I type fglrxinfo in the terminal, I get:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2)
Now apparently, I've read that if mesa is there, than the drivers are not installed properly. However ati catalyst control center works. And it recognises that I have an 4800 series card. But when I enable desktop effects, (which I have to, because in firefox, when I scroll, the screen is choppy and moves at the pace of a snail) I get a white screen. And you can't do anything.
I really have no clue what to do. Any ideas?