ATI Radeon X1200

[Jaded Misanthrope]

Could somebody point me in the right direction for getting the drivers for the ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card for Ubuntu? I'm pretty much stuck with it (I'm on a laptop), so any help with getting them would be great.

[Alex J.]

Dido. Have you had any luck yet? I'm an ultra newbie and can't find the drivers either. They seem to have every driver listed on the ATI website BUT that one.

I'm actually posting this from Vista.
Any help anyone?

[squirrelplayingtag]

It looks like it's the same driver for the x1300 as well. Here are the release notes which lists your card as supported. (https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206..._85_linux.html)

The easiest way is through envy in my opinion. In the terminal

sudo aptitude install envyng-core

Or manually. http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[Alex J.]

Thanks so much. Works like a charm now, and I have the lovely Compiz stuff. Don't know why they didn't make it clearer what driver it needed on the ATI website. 8)

[drkameleon]

ATI's website (and their drivers as well...) are kinda messed up...

[oedha]

Could somebody point me in the right direction for getting the drivers for the ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card for Ubuntu? I'm pretty much stuck with it (I'm on a laptop), so any help with getting them would be great.

just enable the ATI on system - administration - hardware drivers then reboot
it worked for me on X1250 and RV505

[Jaded Misanthrope]

Hopefully, installing what squirrelplayingtag suggested will work to fix an issue I have been having with running Source games through Wine (I just get a screen with varying colours if I try to start a game; the menu itself is fine, as is sound).

[swimstarguy]

Holy crap, a necropost!!!

I'm having the same issue on the same laptop and didn't want to start a new thread when one was already there.


The driver that came with the 9.10 CD isn't working properly.
EnvyNG isn't cutting it.
ATI no longer has the driver listed on their site.
System>Administration>Hardware Drivers doesn't have anything listed.

Has this issue been resolved or documented for anyone? I've been searching and searching and I haven't found anything that currently works, all the solutions are outdated and unsupported.

Help? Please? *offers cookies*

[Wizard of Cause]

Hmm...so far, I've gone through the sequences for updating my drivers as listed here and have gone through the steps of getting the necessary ATI config tools in an attempt to get my s-video output working to my LCD tv.

No luck so far. Can anyone help me? I'm running an ATI Radeon x1200 graphics card on a Toshiba laptop. The output worked great with windows, but whenever I aticonfig --initial in Terminal, it says no supported adapters detected.

Help...please? My girlfriend and I need to watch The Office on out flatscreen and now I've gone and converted my OS to this wonderful, yet demanding Ubuntu.

[3rdalbum]

Holy crap, a necropost!!!

I'm having the same issue on the same laptop and didn't want to start a new thread when one was already there.

Late in 2008 (after the thread was started), ATI abandoned support for your graphics adapter. There is no longer a Catalyst driver for your graphics adapter (the old one doesn't work on any Ubuntu version after 8.10).

You are stuck with the open-source driver, which is improving but still not quite 'there yet'.

Attempting to install the ATI Catalyst driver with one of these unsupported graphics adapters will usually result in a black screen, so if I were you I wouldn't even try it.

Your LCD TV probably has a VGA input which you could try. It should work with the open driver.