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3D Acceleration?


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i've been reading about it a little and have some questions.

 

1.) Am I right to assume that 3d Acceleration is not set up with the default drivers installed automatically by Mandriva?

 

2.) I have a ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, are there drivers that would support this for 3d Accerlation?

 

3.) I'm new to linux, what would be the easiest way for me to install the drivers?

 

i saw that ATI has a .run file to configure the drivers, would that work?

 

thanks!

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  1. No, the drivers included do not have 3d accceleration (unless you purchased a powerpack, i think)
  2. Yes, there are - although sometimes the mobility ATI cards can be troublesome.
  3. there are a few ways. you can go to ATI's site and download their driver installer for linux - i think this is the easiest way. you can also install from an rpm, but at the moment i don't remember what RPM repo's have ATI driver packages.

the .run you mention is what i was talking about in 3 - just open a terminal and go into the directory that you saved the file to (cd directoryname) and then do:

sh ./nameofthefile.run

You may need to su to root first, I can't remember.

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A really nice way to get drivers working, that automatically update when you apply updates to your system is:

 

urpmi dkms-ati

 

of course, make sure you have your urpmi repositories from the easyurpmi link at the top of this page (main, contrib, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree).

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