Tagged and Bagged: ati, car, Linux, nvidia, windows
If you would, go join the 25,000+ petitioners who want decent Linux drivers written for their new ATI cards. I have. On a related note, if any Windows users out there who have an NVidia card that’s comparable to the Radeon 9500 Pro, who would like to trade, as they love ATI, I am willing to discuss it.
Windows+ATI=good
Linux+NVidia=good
I would totally sign that if I owned an ATI graphics card! What I care most about that Nvidia even fails to do is allow a 3D opensource optimized driver! And with VISTA coming allowing for a 3D windowing enviroment the pressure on the Debian and GPL based Linux distros to allow a workable and 3D windowing enviroment that doesn’t utilize propriety drivers or end up tainting the kernel is starting to grow exponentially!
Also, I loved the ray remix. I was stressed out at work today and was singing that song not just humming it! hahaha
So what you are saying is that my ATI AIW 128 Pro does not have the proper driver now that I am experimenting with UBUNTU on this beast of a compaq?
BTW a few questions for those here…
I follow the directions on the sudo aptitude install… commands at pychopathcats for converting my ubuntu to xubuntu. I got an xubunut screen at log in but did not notice any further difference cosmetically. HOw do I tell if the machine is running in ubuntu or xubuntu?
second question… Is there any way to get my winxp laptop to see and share files with the desktop under ubuntu/xubuntu?
Thirdly… what do I use for a plugin to cover wmv files in mozilla on a linux based system? If it is vlc how do I get it installed on the system?
Thanks for any help ye’all can be. BTW I will be in AFghanistan sometime September 26 .. I was supposed to fly out this morning but the horrible snow storm stopped the plane from taking off in trenton…whimpy pilots I;d say.
Actually, your card should be reasonably well supported, Dan. The TV and video capture should even work with the GATOS driver for it. There’s good open source support for the Radeon 8500 and back (except for my Rage 128 Pro’s video capture, as its not an AIW).
I’ll have to swap my hard drive cable to the other little drive and check out how Ubuntu (Kubuntu on my machine) achieves network sharing. I know that you’ll have to have the Linux machine join the same workgroup as the Windows machine (or the other way around), but that can be done from anything as basic as editing the smb.conf file to a point and click configuration utility.
BTW, I’ve been using PCLinuxOS for a few weeks and I’ll be reviewing it soon (have 1/2 of the review written, but there’s a lot more).
I’ve found that the best player for Mozilla is the mplayer plugin. You’ll also have to get the win32 codecs installed so that wmv files can be viewed. I’ll find a link to a repository (unless you do first - its there on the Ubuntu forums and also on one of the Wiki pages) and edit this comment to show where.