bookie Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Hi again, got a friend here in Sweden that has just gone over to powerpack 2008 but is having problems with his graphics card. Does anyone have any suggestions to drivers for Ati's Radeon 9250? bookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 I would recommend using the radeon driver, the latest proprietary driver from ati does not support this card, as far as I can see the last driver from ati that supports this card is 8.28.8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie Posted October 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Thanks for the advice Reiver_Fluffi. My friend said he had tried the driver you mentioned from ati but hasn't checked out radeon yet! Thanks again. bookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 2008 should have automatically detected the card and used the 'ati' driver (the one Reiver suggests). The detection code does not propose the proprietary driver for pre-Radeon 9500 cards, as it doesn't support them. So he should've had working graphics out of the box. Did he not? Or did it only break when he tried to use the proprietary driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie Posted October 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 (edited) Hi adamw, my friend said that the card was detected with the following as stated 8.28.8. He says that it doesn't work very well that is why he thought he would give Radeon a try. bookie PS If you have any more suggestions, I am all ears. Thanks Adam! Edited October 24, 2007 by bookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 I could never get the proprietary ATI drivers to work with my Radeon 9250, no matter what driver version I tried - it never worked. I use the standard open-source driver as nothing else will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 If he's getting 8.28.8 he's not using Mandriva 2008. It sounds like he's using 2007. 8.28.8 is an old version of the proprietary driver, I think it's the one we shipped in 2007. 2007 also had old detection tables that would have tried to use the proprietary driver with a 9250, so that makes sense. He should get 2007 Spring or 2008. Their detection is better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie Posted October 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Thanks for the info guys. I will have a word with my mate and try and give you clearer info. I feel like a piggy in the middle at the moment. bookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie Posted October 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 I have had a chat with my mate and he says that Ati haven't a later driver than 8.28.8. He could get the card working with Mandriva 2008 but not the TV side of things? Have you any suggestions on that? bookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 oh. he's downloading from the ATI site. yes, the last ATI driver that supported the 9250 was 8.28.8. But there's not really a lot of point using that, AFAIK. It's better just to use the free driver. The free driver being better than the proprietary one for cards prior to the 9500 was part of the reason ATI stopped supporting those cards after 8.28.8. I don't know about the TV side, sorry, never used TV output on a Radeon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie Posted October 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Thanks as always for your time Adam. Can't win all of them all of the time! bookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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