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Does Ubuntu 9.10 support VIA-ATI graphic Cards?

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Does Ubuntu 9.10 support VIA-ATI graphic Cards? I am using Asrock mother board with P4 Processor and VIA PM800 graphics card. Does ubuntu Karamic support my card?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

I use Ubuntu 9.10 development release on a few computers with Ati cards with no issue.

You can test the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, now in alpha4 stage, by yourself making a live install cd from iso image, i suggest you to download it using the official torrent link

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/alpha-4/karmic-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

or

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/alpha-4/karmic-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent

Hope this helps

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pepperblue (ayashif) said : 		#2

I just installed xserver-xorg-video-openchrome_0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1_i386 driver. I may take two week or more to download the live CD as my Internet is a dial-up one. But the problem is, even though i installed the driver, graphics is not enabled. How can i solve this problem?

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pepperblue (ayashif) said : 		#3

lspci shows this output about my graphics:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM800/PM880/PN800/PN880 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 02).

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pepperblue (ayashif) said : 		#4

My card does not support 3D acceleration