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Dear boys and girls,

Praise the Lord! (praise those coders too)
fglrx works again, finally!
I just updated yesterday and I installed fglrx via MCC and it works well.
Edit: I forgot to mention, I have all repositories enabled, including testing and backports.

Or...

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segfault wrote:Dear boys and girls,

Praise the Lord! (praise those coders too)
fglrx works again, finally!
I just updated yesterday and I installed fglrx via MCC and it works well.
Edit: I forgot to mention, I have all repositories enabled, including testing and backports.

What type of card are you using? I just purchased an older AMD 64 system with an ATI RADEON® XPRESS 200 chipset. Do you know if fglrx will work with it? I will be installing the beta either Friday or Saturday.

Thnx.

hey saptech,

I've got a Radeon HD 4350. I have no idea if fglrx works with your card. I've been a long time nVidia user (everything just works in nVidia land) and I never realized how lucky I was. A few months ago I decided to go with ATI for graphics when I built my new computer. So I don't have much experience with ATI cards. What I would do If I were you. I would try fglrx and if it doesn't work I would switch back to the open source driver and file a bug. It is relatively easy to switch to the radeon driver in case this thing goes South. Login as root in console mode (not that you have an option here, X won't start anyway

) and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vim (replace "fglrx" with "radeon"). Restart and X should start again.

segfault, from what I've read, my ati card is legacy and fglrx wont work with it.

Thnx for the info and good luck!

segfault wrote:hey saptech,

I've got a Radeon HD 4350. I have no idea if fglrx works with your card. I've been a long time nVidia user (everything just works in nVidia land) and I never realized how lucky I was. A few months ago I decided to go with ATI for graphics when I built my new computer. So I don't have much experience with ATI cards. What I would do If I were you. I would try fglrx and if it doesn't work I would switch back to the open source driver and file a bug. It is relatively easy to switch to the radeon driver in case this thing goes South. Login as root in console mode (not that you have an option here, X won't start anyway :) ) and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vim (replace "fglrx" with "radeon"). Restart and X should start again.

To switch the drivers, it's recommended to use drakx11 (it works from text console too). It doesn't only edit xorg.conf, but does some other jobs too that are necessary to complete the switch.

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