Installing grapics drivers?

[powerone1]

I recently decided to try Linux because i had never tried it.

I ended up getting Ubuntu Studio 7.04 because i like all the stuff you can do in
studio even though i'm no good at it.

Ive installed the Ubuntu Studio and it's working great but i havnt installed graphics
drivers and it is noticable. Most of the screensavers are jerky and the graphics on them is a bit edgy.(by the way this is an ATI Radeon 9600xt 256mb)
The whole graphical interface deosnt run very well.
The thing is the reason i havnt installed the drivers is because
i just dont know how. I am probably the biggest newbie on Linux there ever was.
I dont know a thing.
I have the driver disk but that deosnt work. I think because it might not work on linux. I really want to get the graphics card going so i can install Beryl which looks soo cool.

Can someone please help!!!?!!!?!!!?!

[infoshirish]

Hey,
Well you just need to search your graphics card is supported by ubuntu hardware support. see the below link -->
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport
If its listed no need to install ubuntu do the installation of graphics card on its own.
To cross check it type the below command
#lspci |graqphics
#dmesg
See graphics card is listed or not.
If not listed google on net for your graphics drivers for linux and download it.
Installing any packages / drivers / applications is a bit diffrent in linux. It depends which type package do you have. See below link for diffrent type of installations
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

[devils casper]

Hi powerone1 !

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

Which Graphics Driver are you using right now? Open Terminal and execute this

grep "Driver" /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[powerone1]

yea, ive come accross heaps of stuff for linux where it says type this and type that but nothing said where to type it. Do i just type it all in terminal?

[devils casper]

As I mentioned in last post, open Terminal and execute grep command.

[powerone1]

I've tried that. What's supposed to happen?

[devils casper]

It will display the Graphics Driver name that you are using right now. Whats the output of that command?

[infoshirish]

hey,
Well yes you need to run these commands on terminal / Console mode. Check whether your graphics card output is display (if any). Post the outputs to us.

[powerone1]

Hi,um, er sorry but the computer crashed.
It cept on stuffing up because of the graphics card so i cept on having to shut it down by holding down the on/off button.Now when i turn it on it has some file error and has to check the hard disk wich fails. I can reinstall Ubuntu and i will do that and shall get on to trying all these things once i'm done.

Thanx 4 help