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spookykid

Member

From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-07-23

Posts: 141

ATI Radeon HD 5650 [SOLVED]

Hi all,
my last laptop died yesterday :-( it was a Sony Vaio with a Nvidia Graphics Card,  and I had a perfect experience with it and Linux (arch). Yesterday I bought a new Sony Vaio but this time with a ATI Radeon HD 5650 Card. I've been reading that this card is not very Linux friendly, so I'd like to know from you what is your experience with it and what driver do you recommend. I'm stuck with Windoze 7 on this PC but I'm dying to install Arch on it. I just can't live with Windows anymore.

Thankx and merry christmas.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I don't play games on my PC (I have a Wii) but I can't live without Compiz enabled, so I need to have 3D.

Last edited by spookykid (2010-12-24 16:34:36)

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agapito

Member

From: Who cares.

Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 679

Re: ATI Radeon HD 5650 [SOLVED]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst

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Dogmeat

Member

From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: ATI Radeon HD 5650 [SOLVED]

I have ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 in a laptop and it works great with Catalyst. No problems at all.

spookykid

Member

From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-07-23

Posts: 141

Re: ATI Radeon HD 5650 [SOLVED]

Problem solved, I changed PC with another one with an Nvidia card still using Sony Vaio. Now time to backup pre-installed software and install Arch.

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