ATI Drivers and Intel 865G VGA drivers.

ambertone · Post by **ambertone** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:43 am

Hi all, does anyone know the commands to download and install drivers for the following:

ATI Radeon 7500 AGP

Intel 865G chipset VGA driver (motherboard driver)

All help appreciated.

Rod

telic · Post by **telic** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:03 am

I once had a Radeon 7500, moons ago. The ATI support website doesn't offer a proprietary Linux driver for the 7500 series, so I reckon you'll have to use the open-source driver. Bianca is akin to Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy).

According to this discussion, the Intel 865G chipset doesn't need a special driver under Linux.

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ambertone · Post by **ambertone** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:23 am

Thanks for that, yes the machine with the 865G chipset is working fine under Bianca but I just wanted to be sure.

I have a low profile 64m 7500 which I might add in to unload the frame buffer from the RAM.

Any ideas on the ATI driver?

Rod

telic · Post by **telic** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:28 pm

Any ideas on the ATI driver?

Nope. No ideas. Just happy thoughts.

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Alephcat · Post by **Alephcat** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:01 pm

ambertone wrote:Any ideas on the ATI driver?

you might try using envy, if it is agp you will probably need to use the older driver

ambertone · Post by **ambertone** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:38 pm

For some reason whenever I use Envy (and tried on about three machines) it either sits there and does nothing or it crashes the machine so I think I'll stay away from it.

Rod

Alephcat · Post by **Alephcat** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:20 pm

it has worked for me, but then I am using a newer ati card