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Find and set video driver
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Post # 291060
 Find and set video driverCopied from initial wrong forum, sorry for that.
Just did my first antiX install with xfce desktop. The video chip on this laptop is a "ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600 graphics controller with 32 or 64 MB of Video RAM". This is from the spec sheet. By the descriptions in Synaptic the driver should be: xserver-xorg-video-radeon (which is installed, along with several other xservers). During boot there is a reference to: radeon/R300_cp.bin. My personal desktop comp has a nice GUI setup for my Nvidia card. Haven't found a similar thing for xfce. Is there a pkg I need to install? Or edit xorg.conf? But what entries? |
| Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:40 pm |
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Re: Find and set video driver If you're using the radeon driver (the open source driver), then the only other more capable driver is the ATI proprietary one. It's usually installed with sgfxi. See here: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Sgfxi
You may already have it in the version of antiX that you are using. The HowTo in the wiki is pretty good. _________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
| Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:10 am |
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Re: Find and set video driver [Solved] I finally got it installed. Sgxfi was a large part of the process, but other pkg installs and upgrades figured in. I now have the latest propriatary ATI driver, which sgxfi says is not supposed to be suported. I can't even trace and report what I did. A couple of times I just did something I was warned not to do, and it worked. So, thanks for the tips.
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