[lilomaster]

Looking around on the Internet. I've found out that ATI has no support for Video cards older than Radeon 9600 since the Linux driver version 8.29. At the same time, the newest driver that supports our old cards cannot be installed under newer versions of Ubuntu. In consequence, we have to look for alternative drivers in order to get our cards working.

Project DRI seems to be the most suitable driver for this cards. It requires kernel recompilation, so it is a little bit complicated to install. As soon as I get it working I post again.

Greetings.

[lotuseclat79]

Hi lilomaster,

Welcome to TSG!

I run Ultimate Ubuntu (Gnarley Gnome) 1.4 Live CD (Fiesty Fawn 7.04) on a p4 platform with an ATi RV3705B60 [Radeon X300 PCIE] video card.

I have no need for a newer driver as the video card has never failed. However, I suppose the need for speed/capacity and new gaming features is what the interest in video driver support is all about, eh?

-- Tom

[lilomaster]

That's right. Actually, I'm not mainly interested on 3D acceleration for my desktop PC. I definitely use my laptop for gamimg and 3D application purposes. Anyway, I read the DRI project drivers are much faster and relialble than the official ATI 3D Drivers themselves. I haven't confirm that by myself, since I have installed the officcial ATI Drivers on my Laptop, which has an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 Chipset (Radeon Xpress X300) and Ubuntu Feisty AMD_64. What is true, is that ATI drivers haven't as much support as the open source drivers, because they're not open source. For the same reason, it isn't strange that the open source drivers, in which development has contributed thousand of users, were faster and more relialble than the oficcial drivers. I've written a couple of times to the "ATI Linux Crew" and they've never answered back.

The main reason I want to propoerly configure my ATI Radeon 9000 installed in my desktop is because I intensively use the TV out for watching movies. Of course, If I could get the 3D acceleration working, it would be wonderful. Anyway, it's a pitty that the "Theater Mode" for watching movies is not available under Linux.

Please, were somebody to have the 3D acceleration and TV out working, either with Mesa Project drivers or DRI, post as soon as possible (dont´t forget all the details, please).