ati driver

[Electroman6913]

I am trying to get 3d support
I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
I couldn't find a hardware manage in LMDE I downloaded a file from ATI but it was only for Red Hat and Suse. I couldn't figure out how to build a package from the file I downloaded. Help would be much appreciated.

[Gerd50]

Without knowledge about what you've downloaded help is impossible

At first try this:

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apt-get install fglrx-control fglrx-glx fglrx-modules-dkms

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sudo aticonfig --initial

[SimonTS]

You shouldn't (don't quote me though) need to download the driver from ATI for LMDE. There is a useful posting - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=76010 - which details various things worth 'tidying up' post-install on LMDE. The part I would suggest you look at is as follows;-

Now's the part for ATI Radeon users:

The FGLRX driver:

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sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver fglrx-control
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental compiz-fusion-* fusion-icon
sudo /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial
sudo reboot

After reboot, time to set up ATI and Compiz options.
The most important ATI option is "Tear Free Desktop".
There are plenty of Compiz options to configure, but almost every config will work ok.

I've found I have to use fusion-icon (make it load on startup) to use compiz as window manager. "compiz --replace" method gives us Compiz just once.

[Roken]

The best way I have found to install propriety gfx drivers is to use sgfxi: http://smxi.org

[Electroman6913]

I have the driver installed now but I can't get Compiz to work.

[wayne128]

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