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Shadowmeph

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From: West Coast Canada

Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 208

Hello again Just wondering if the problems with Vid(ATI) drivers still

Hello I haven't been here in a while, I did an Arch Linux install a few months back and it was quite the learning experience for someone like me being a noob . I loved Arch( I was using 64bit) but the only thing that made me leave it was because after several tries I never could get the ATI VId drivers to install properly for my ATI 3870hd video card I could'nt do any serious gaming which suckedso I ended up uninstalling Arch. I did stay with Linux and stayed away from the MS OS's and now I am back and wondering if the installation problem is still there. I am using Ubuntu Hardy right now and although it is a good OS I really prefer Arch but like I said I just want to know if I am going to have the same problems with the Video Drivers as I did the last time. which I could never figure out because I did have duel boot 64bit ARCH and 64bit, Ubuntu but with Ubuntu all I needed to do was  go into the system/administration/hardware drivers and check( turn on) the ATI accelerated hardware drivers I had no problems since.
I just realised that my single simple question turned into a short story so I will post this and hope that my problem with the Driver installs are solved so I can reinstall Arch with out any huge problems when I want to game

Last edited by Shadowmeph (2008-08-31 03:25:15)

celthias

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Registered: 2008-04-15

Posts: 83

Re: Hello again Just wondering if the problems with Vid(ATI) drivers still

This isn't a precise answer as such but I use a fairly recently released ATI Radeon 4870 and I've had no problems using that with ATI's proprietary driver.

All documentation I followed was located here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … ary_driver

Also:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=NjY3NA

Hope this helps

Shadowmeph

Member

From: West Coast Canada

Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 208

Re: Hello again Just wondering if the problems with Vid(ATI) drivers still

This isn't a precise answer as such but I use a fairly recently released ATI Radeon 4870 and I've had no problems using that with ATI's proprietary driver.

All documentation I followed was located here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … ary_driver

Also:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=NjY3NA

Hope this helps

Wow this is great so I will install Arch Again and give it a try

SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: Hello again Just wondering if the problems with Vid(ATI) drivers still

I've been using ATI's drivers for some time now, and had no issue, the likelihood is that the drivers weren't working properly with your card due to it's relative youth.  However you should have no issues now. 

The ATI drivers are now pretty mature, and you should not have any significant issues. I had a number at the start with my card when playing video, but these have all been resolved by recent driver updates.

SyXbiT

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 177

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Re: Hello again Just wondering if the problems with Vid(ATI) drivers still

i wonder if you could post your xorg.conf (i just got a 4870, and after tweaking my nvidia xorg.conf for the last 3 years, i'm a n00b with ati )