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ATI Xpress 200 (Packard Bell MZ355): Troubles with Drivers with Intrepid Ibex, just got 2D functions.

Asked by J.Humberto

Hi Friends:

I have a Packard Bell MZ355 with an ATI Xpress 200M Video Card. I have tried the default drivers and the propietary drivers with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), but I see no differences and cannot use 3D and OpenGL features. I'm new with Linux, so I don't know much of this. I was wondering what if I try with latest drivers from ati.com (http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html) What should I do for get full features of my card?? Do I have yo uninstall somethings before??? I would very thankful if you help me, please bear in mind that I'm new...so may be I need "explication for dummies".

Thanks a lot.

JHS.

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#1

These ATI Xpress 200M cards are known to produce severe problems with the 3D desktops.
That's why they are (since Ubuntu 8.04) blacklisted for those features.

Sorry for that.

Greetings!

ps: there is a way to disable the blacklisting... but especially for your card it is not in any way recommended.

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J.Humberto (juanhumberto) said : 		#2

What if I try to install drivers from ati.com, as I said above??

Thanks.

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#3

That "official" ATI-driver is even not supporting that card at all.

The real problem is the graphics-card... not the software. With Windows this so called graphic-accelerator is also a pain in the b***.

Sorry... no chance on that hardware-preferences. :-(

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J.Humberto (juanhumberto) said : 		#4

Ok, thanks for your answer, pal.

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Best midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#5

Believe me... im so sorry for that!
I myself was suffering from this a bit with an old Radeon 7500 which was also blacklisted for a while because of that shitty Xpress cards. That's why I know about that exactly.

There is a way to unblacklist any card (I did it with my, known working correctly, card)... but it is not recommended in any "normal" way. Especially if a configuration is known to make glitches then.

CU

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J.Humberto (juanhumberto) said : 		#6

Thanks midnightflash, that solved my question.