my ati radeon 9700 128mb mobilty

[sasfmj 0]

Hi

my laptop has a ati radeon 9700 128mb mobilty card in it

how and where do i get and install drivers for the card ?

im useing redhat fedora core and have a 64bit cpu if this

helps ive been to the ati site and followed what it said

but no luck.

i cant even use the check.sh file to find out what verson

of what ever im using is im lost and need help !!!????

 

cheers

 

Matthew

 

 

 

[iamroot 0]

Geez. Sorry to say that ATI doesn't have GNU/Linux drivers for mobile graphic cards. You better stick with the generic driver that comes with the OS.

[sasfmj 0]

oh really bummer!!

so anyway i can make it go any faster the os find the it as a 9600

but i cant even run the fre game 'tux racer' that comes with the fedora core its like 1 frame per second

 

????

 

thanks Matthew

 

[danleff 0]

Also, take a look at the ATI Linux faq page.

[iamroot 0]

Sorry to say that you can't. The default driver that comes with the OS is not optimized for openGL. You're gonna be stuck with the 1-frame per second gameplay till ATI releases a driver for Mobility Radeon.

[botanick 0]

Matthew, check out this:

 

http://www.caprinae-ascendant.net/foss/linux-on-sager.php#fglrx

[danleff 0]

Mathew's post is over a year old, so I doubt that he is still around. However, nice link!