ATI drivers on an Acer Aspire 5155

I'm having problems getting good video speed with this adapter:
(FROM lspci)
Card:ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier: ATI Technologies Inc|RS690M [Radeon X1200
Series] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:791f subv:107b subd:0184) ATI adapter.
I've tried installing the fglrx kernel but still have poor video speed plus I
loose my broadcom wireless adapter. I've tried installing the ATI propriatary
drivers and get this error message:
"==================================================
 ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
which: no XFree86 in
(/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt4/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/home/ken/bin)

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.29.6-desktop586-1mnb; make sure that the version is
being correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.i6zSCl"

What can I do to get this durn thing to work properly?
TIA, Ken

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[Anssi Hannula-3]

olcarman@... wrote:
> I'm having problems getting good video speed with this adapter:
> (FROM lspci)
> Card:ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier: ATI Technologies Inc|RS690M [Radeon X1200
> Series] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:791f subv:107b subd:0184) ATI adapter.
[...]
> What can I do to get this durn thing to work properly?

Which Mandriva Linux version do you have?

--
Anssi Hannula

On Fri Jul 31  7:30 , Anssi Hannula <anssi@...> sent:

>olcarman@... wrote:
>> I'm having problems getting good video speed with this adapter:
>> (FROM lspci)
>> Card:ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier: ATI Technologies Inc|RS690M [Radeon X1200
>> Series] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:791f subv:107b subd:0184) ATI adapter.
>[...]
>> What can I do to get this durn thing to work properly?
>
>Which Mandriva Linux version do you have?
>
>--
>Anssi Hannula

Mandriva One 2009 Spring.
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[Anssi Hannula-3]

olcarman@... wrote:

>
> On Fri Jul 31  7:30 , Anssi Hannula <anssi@...> sent:
>
>> olcarman@... wrote:
>>> I'm having problems getting good video speed with this adapter:
>>> (FROM lspci)
>>> Card:ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier: ATI Technologies Inc|RS690M [Radeon X1200
>>> Series] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:791f subv:107b subd:0184) ATI adapter.
>> [...]
>>> What can I do to get this durn thing to work properly?
>> Which Mandriva Linux version do you have?
>>
>> --
>> Anssi Hannula
>
> Mandriva One 2009 Spring.

Unfortunately the ATI proprietary driver (fglrx) does not support your
card anymore.

Your card is only supported by the free ati/radeon driver, which you
presumably have by default.

I don't know much about it, but you could try some options in Section
"device" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, from radeon driver manual (command "man
radeon"). Alternatively, you could try to configure your video player to
use opengl instead of Xvideo.

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Anssi Hannula

On Fri Jul 31  9:42 , Anssi Hannula <anssi@...> sent:

>olcarman@... wrote:
>>
>> On Fri Jul 31  7:30 , Anssi Hannula anssi@...> sent:
>>
>>> olcarman@... wrote:
>>>> I'm having problems getting good video speed with this adapter:
>>>> (FROM lspci)
>>>> Card:ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier: ATI Technologies Inc|RS690M [Radeon X1200
>>>> Series] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:791f subv:107b subd:0184) ATI adapter.
>>> [...]
>>>> What can I do to get this durn thing to work properly?
>>> Which Mandriva Linux version do you have?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Anssi Hannula
>>
>> Mandriva One 2009 Spring.
>
>Unfortunately the ATI proprietary driver (fglrx) does not support your
>card anymore.
>
>Your card is only supported by the free ati/radeon driver, which you
>presumably have by default.
>
>I don't know much about it, but you could try some options in Section
>"device" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, from radeon driver manual (command "man
>radeon"). Alternatively, you could try to configure your video player to
>use opengl instead of Xvideo.
>
>--
>Anssi Hannula

Thanks for the info and help.
Are there any older fglrx drivers available that would suppot my card and work
with MDV One?
Ken
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[Anssi Hannula-3]

olcarman@... wrote:

>
> On Fri Jul 31  9:42 , Anssi Hannula <anssi@...> sent:
>
>> olcarman@... wrote:
>>> Mandriva One 2009 Spring.
>> Unfortunately the ATI proprietary driver (fglrx) does not support your
>> card anymore.
>>
>> Your card is only supported by the free ati/radeon driver, which you
>> presumably have by default.
>>
>> I don't know much about it, but you could try some options in Section
>> "device" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, from radeon driver manual (command "man
>> radeon"). Alternatively, you could try to configure your video player to
>> use opengl instead of Xvideo.
>>
>> --
>> Anssi Hannula
>
> Thanks for the info and help.
> Are there any older fglrx drivers available that would suppot my card and work
> with MDV One?

Not with 2009.1.

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Anssi Hannula

>>
>> Thanks for the info and help.
>> Are there any older fglrx drivers available that would suppot my card and work
>> with MDV One?
>
>Not with 2009.1.
>
>--
>Anssi Hannula

OK, thanks so much for the help.
Ken
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