[Psychaospath]

Hey, ive got a ATI Radeon X1300 AGP 8x, not that good but all i got right now, of course it runs fine on my windows boot. I cant seem to get it installed on my Ubuntu boot. I went to Restricted Drivers, and tried to enable it but does nothing. Plz help.

[Vlad]

Originally Posted by Psychaospath Hey, ive got a ATI Radeon X1300 AGP 8x, not that good but all i got right now, of course it runs fine on my windows boot. I cant seem to get it installed on my Ubuntu boot. I went to Restricted Drivers, and tried to enable it but does nothing. Plz help.

Does ATI have Linux drivers for it online? It should.
They might be tricky to install, couldn't do it myself, so yeah.

[Psychaospath]

ok i ran the driver installer, and it started unpackeging and whatever..then a message came up and said i need to be a "Super User" to run the program. Im thinking thats root, so i logged into ubuntu as root in safe mode, and uh, i dont have a clue how to run the program in that
im running that installer file out of my ipod nano, called TEHSHIZNITZ, if that helps.

[Psychaospath]

lil help plz

[Psychaospath]

plzzz help !

[Vlad]

Start Ubuntu normally, and log in as root with one of the following passwords (the one that works):

root
toor
ubuntu
test

[Psychaospath]

when i tried that it said cant login to root on this screen so i had to do it in safe mode

[Tom Tiger]

You do NOT have to log into Ubuntu as root (in fact you can't) Safe mode is intended for maintenance and you will NOT be root there either.

goto system--administration Restricte Drivers.

You will need to input your root pwd here when prompted (During install you were prompted for your root pwd/SUDO pwd)

[Psychaospath]

i already tried to enable the driver, i clicked enable and...nothing. natta, zip. zilch. It still says disabled. i try it again. nothing, it still says the same thing.

[Tom Tiger]

Originally Posted by Psychaospath i already tried to enable the driver, i clicked enable and...nothing. natta, zip. zilch. It still says disabled. i try it again. nothing, it still says the same thing.

That means that the "standard" driver is enabled. I've got one radeon system which works like that. To test it, go to system and preferences and enable desktop effects.

If that works your 3d works. If it doesn't it means you must force enable your ATI driver.

http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=24500447

These links will help you. Be advised that the newest ATI driver is buggy and ATI is working on the problem.