Arch Linux

caelestis

Member

Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 88

ATI driver for 9600 mobility?

I've come a long way in getting Arch to work properly, and so far it's going great. However, my laptop has an ATI gfx card and the open source driver has poor 3d rendering support, and I can't even play warcraft 3, or run blender smoothly. The propietary catalyst dropped support (i think?) for my card. Is there any driver I can use to have smooth 3d acceleration?

Also, if I ever get a new laptop, will I have this much trouble with nvidia or integrated intel chipsets?

TY

Edit: Ok, so I found out my card will be supported under catalyst 9.3, I download the catalyst-utils-old from AUR and makepkg it, but when i use pacman -U on the resultant tarball I get these errors:

error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet
error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)

linux is just full of errors isnt it?

Last edited by caelestis (2009-04-05 06:25:08)

May-C

Member

Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 83

Re: ATI driver for 9600 mobility?

First of all it has nothing to do with linux. Pacman does not have this feature.

And there is cleany written what to do. Remove the old package and then you can install the new one with pacman -U

So do a pacman -Rd catalyst-utils and then an pacman -U <the_package>

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,097

Re: ATI driver for 9600 mobility?

The open driver is IMO the only way to go, since when xorg-server 1.6 hits extra, you won't be able to used the propiary driver anymore without ignoring the xorg updates, something that will cause it's own problems down the road.

Anyway, pacman is telling you exactly what you have to do...
Unlike *coughwindowscough* linux is full of human readable errors

---

Evil #archlinux@libera.chat channel op and general support dude.
. files on github, Screenshots, Random pics and the rest

KlavKalashj

Member

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 376

Re: ATI driver for 9600 mobility?

For me the open source driver works great. Sure, I get low fps in wc3, but just lower the resolution. At 1680x1050, highest graphics settings, I get around 15-25 when playind DotA. Can easily get higher just by lowering graphics settings. A strange thing for me is that the proprietary driver have never worked on this card/laptop, doesn't matter wich dist, kernel, X-version I am using

caelestis

Member

Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 88

Re: ATI driver for 9600 mobility?

when i use the open driver, it doesn't even display anything correctly. Everything is filled with white... What am I supposed to do?

I will just have to ignore xorg updates, because if I can't have wc3, I can't have linux