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support for AMD and ATI

Asked by syberhunter

I just bought a new Gateway NV53 Laptop with an Athlon 2 dual core x2 processor and ATI 4200 grapics card. It came pre loaded with Windows 7. I installed 9.10 on it and Ubuntu ran but could not identify the processors or the video. Also Grub could not boot Windows 7. I took it back to Future Shop and the tech told me that 9.10 does not have drivers for the AMD/ATI hardware. Is this true and if so is there a way around this? Will the next version have support for these problems?

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Rajinder Sandhu (sandy744) said : 		#1

there are ati drivers available in the OS you need to select them to install.
and do
sudo apt-get update
then
sudo apt-get upgrade

or type ati in search box of synaptic and you will be presented with all the ifno.
what i could find is ... xserver-xorg-video-mach64 and more are there ......nore help is available on www.x.org and .<http://xorg.freedesktop.org>
<URL:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg>

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