UH OH?! ATI
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:09 pm
Hey Guys,
Few Comments first, Tried the Live CD FELL HEAD OVER HEELS FOR MINT LINUX! (I despise windows anything)
IT WORKS, BOOTS AND SEES EVERYTHING! YES!
Ok now that is over, I decided to beta test it on my kids computer (before I put it on my big one) and it seemed to work perfectly. The only problem I had was on Youtube the videos would studder horribly and fullscreen would take like 2-3 minutes to minimize and stop it completely. So I figured it was the ATI Radeon driver that loads up at default. So I tried a few different drivers and nothing changed still seemed chuggy. So I booted it up this morning and there was and error initiating driver and I had to revert back to a low res driver. Can I roolback to what I had? Or how do reinstall the old one?
I have been using this for about 2 days now so yep you guessed it Noob! But I know my way around a DOS prompt and windows pretty well, try not to get too tech on me with linux but I will try.
What are the minimums for this Distro?
I put on:
1.06 Ghz Processor Single
1.0 Gig Memory
Wireless Lan
60 Gig HD With Windows XP(yuk!)
ATI 32 Radeon 7200 With TV tuner support for DVR Function
Thanks
Cy
Few Comments first, Tried the Live CD FELL HEAD OVER HEELS FOR MINT LINUX! (I despise windows anything)
IT WORKS, BOOTS AND SEES EVERYTHING! YES!
Ok now that is over, I decided to beta test it on my kids computer (before I put it on my big one) and it seemed to work perfectly. The only problem I had was on Youtube the videos would studder horribly and fullscreen would take like 2-3 minutes to minimize and stop it completely. So I figured it was the ATI Radeon driver that loads up at default. So I tried a few different drivers and nothing changed still seemed chuggy. So I booted it up this morning and there was and error initiating driver and I had to revert back to a low res driver. Can I roolback to what I had? Or how do reinstall the old one?
I have been using this for about 2 days now so yep you guessed it Noob! But I know my way around a DOS prompt and windows pretty well, try not to get too tech on me with linux but I will try.
What are the minimums for this Distro?
I put on:
1.06 Ghz Processor Single
1.0 Gig Memory
Wireless Lan
60 Gig HD With Windows XP(yuk!)
ATI 32 Radeon 7200 With TV tuner support for DVR Function
Thanks
Cy