Proprietary drivers for Radeon 7000

Butcher · 2009-07-17 13:08:43

I'm using an ATI Radeon 7000 on my PC. I want to know if there are any proprietary drivers for it, because the driver I'm actually using (xf86-video-ati) has a poor performance.

I've been googling and I've found that actual Catalyst version does not support my card, but there's some old version that works. Does anyone know where can I get it? Will it work with my current kernel (2.6.30)?

Thanks.

.:B:. · 2009-07-17 16:40:15

Even if there's still a proprietary version that supports your card, chances are you'll have to downgrade your kernel. The chance the driver builds against a recent kernel is virtually zero.

Butcher · 2009-07-17 16:53:23

Very bad

A <2.6.29 kernel won't work good with my Atheros card.

.:B:. · 2009-07-17 17:10:18

You can try with the 2.6.29 kernel, see if you can build against it... Maybe some of the more conservative distros (Debian?) have some patches around.

R00KIE · 2009-07-17 17:30:15

You can also expect to find a few nasty bugs with the proprietary drivers ... I guess most people here already had some kind of problem with those drivers.

Butcher · 2009-07-19 10:50:57

Meh... I'll have to buy another card... so many troubles :-\

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#1 2009-07-17 13:08:43

Proprietary drivers for Radeon 7000

#2 2009-07-17 16:40:15

Re: Proprietary drivers for Radeon 7000

#3 2009-07-17 16:53:23

Re: Proprietary drivers for Radeon 7000

#4 2009-07-17 17:10:18

Re: Proprietary drivers for Radeon 7000

#5 2009-07-17 17:30:15

Re: Proprietary drivers for Radeon 7000

#6 2009-07-19 10:50:57

Re: Proprietary drivers for Radeon 7000

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