ATI Mobility 9000 graphics card

Jaytee · #1 November 3rd, 2007, 08:25 AM

Hi All,
Can anyone help me with a little ATI problem I am having?
I installed some open source drivers for my ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 but it crashed my Xserver. Not entirely sure I installed them correctly but thought I had. I then installed the xorg fglrx drivers through synaptic but the glx gears were almost at a standstill. I read in the forums to change my /etc/X11/xorg.conf from "ati" to "fglrx" but this crashed my xserver again. So back with the xorg driver and glxgears is running very slowly at 139-141 fps in fullscreen mode.
All the info I have found so far only is good for the "9500" and later. Anyone???

**kage** · #2 November 4th, 2007, 05:26 PM

Have you installed the xorg-driver-fglrx package? If not, your xserver is crashing because it cannot find the fglrx module.

Jaytee · #3 November 5th, 2007, 11:49 AM

Hi Kage,
Yes I have the package. I used synaptic to install it. The xserver did not crash immediattely. glx gears slowed to almost a standstill. I read a fixit howto that reccomended I edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf from "ati" to "fglrx" then it crashed.