ATI Radeon x1900 driver problem

[Guest afterburn25]

hi i am running mandriva and have a ATI Radeon X1900 XT video card and i have the standered fbdev driver installed but i have some problems everything works fine but i cant change screen resolution and im stuck with a 56 refresh rate and its pretty aggravating especially when moving windows or scrolling. i tried the ati site and the only drivers they have for linux for that card is for the x86_64 architecture. are there any work arounds to this. i know there has to have one cause i didnt have this problem with fedora fc7 with things the way they are i may as well be running a 386 machine.

[scarecrow]

ATI 8.34.8 is currently at PLF non-free repo, and you can also use the xorg driver as well as the generic vesa driver- all of them will do better than fbdev.

You can get the proprietary ATi driver by setting PLF in your repos and then

su -c "urpmi dkms-ati"

...and probably you were looking at the wrong place- Ati has drivers for pretty much any architecture:

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

But using the cooked binaries from PLF should be simpler.

Edited August 4, 2007 by scarecrow

[Demon]

Unfortunately, your card isn't supported by Radeon X.org Driver. So you are stuck with the proprietary drivers. Just use the link scarecrow provided, download the driver and install it.

[adamw]

once you've installed the driver you can then go back to the graphics card configuration tool and re-set up the card: this time it should tell you there's a proprietary driver available, and ask you if you want to use it. Say yes.