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Difference between "ati" and "radeon" [solved]


Gul Dukat
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Hi,

 

I've just recently reinstalled my laptop, which has ATi Radeon X700 graphical card, decided not to use the closed-source driver from ATi itself, but instead use the opensource driver ati. But I also came across a opensource driver called radeon. I can't seem to find any reference to what the difference is between those 2 drivers, ati and radeon. I was hoping someone here could help me out. I would greatly appreciate that.

 

Thanks in advance.

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There's no "ati" driver, really.

It is just a "clever" script which probes your hardware, and depending on its type it loads the proper module - which can be "atimisc", "r128" or "radeon". In your case it's the latter.

More info at the xorg wiki:

http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/Drivers

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