Quote: Original post by Yosh
I'm back, with gifts! Here's the guide I wrote up some time ago for Slackware 10.1.
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I really hope that helps!

Thanks, I will test it and see if it works, but I don't recognize "Installpkg" are there a command like that in Debian?

Sorry for the double post

Quote: Original post by Eken

Quote: Original post by Yosh
I'm back, with gifts! Here's the guide I wrote up some time ago for Slackware 10.1.
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I really hope that helps!

Thanks, I will test it and see if it works, but I don't recognize "Installpkg" are there a command like that in Debian?

Yeah, installpkg is a Slackware utility. You can get an ATi Linux Driver package specifically tailored for Debian somewhere around the 'net. However, it requires a lot more work.

On a side note, Slackware may not have dependency checking or any of that fancy stuff, but it's rock solid, easy to work with and, well, works.

EDIT - I used the Slackware 10.1 package on linuxpackages.net (I believe that's the site) in the above example.

EDIT2 - It works great with my 9600XT, but the ATi drivers have no support (at all) for the X800 XL chip. Guess what? I bought an X800 XL a month back. Yeah, I'm a tad angry. [lol]

ATi cards can sometimes be better performing than nVidia cards, but with ATIs sucky Linux drivers it's probable that your nVidia card will perform much, much, much better than a similar ATi card on the same Linux machine. Not to mention, you won't get any random crashes like I do.

Cheers!

Quote: Original post by fyhuang
ATi cards can sometimes be better performing than nVidia cards, but with ATIs sucky Linux drivers it's probable that your nVidia card will perform much, much, much better than a similar ATi card on the same Linux machine. Not to mention, you won't get any random crashes like I do.

Cheers!

I never got any random crashes. In fact, my 9600XT performed quite well under Linux.

What card did / do you have?

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro. The new drivers have fixed a vast majority of the crashes (freezes actually - the mouse works (but you can't click anything), no programs seem to continue running, and SSH works but trying to reboot/shutdown/kill X just crashes the computer), but I'm still getting them in a few programs (especially the Cedega ones).

Cheers!