ATI proprietary driver installation on Mandriva free (+some tweaking)

[gona]

I have Mandriva free 2010.2 with KDE and I'm trying to install the proprietary drivers for my Radeon x800 XL graphics card by following the guide on Mandriva community wiki. I have enabled the non-free and non-free updates repositories but when I open the graphical server configuration panel and try to select the graphics card I don't get any message about proprietary drivers.

The graphics settings are configured as follows:

Graphics card: ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier
Display: 1280x1024/60Hz
Resolution: Automatic (24bpp)


Then another problem: I have used Windows for a long time and one of the things I noticed when I installed Mandriva was that almost all fonts look messy. Is there a way to fix this? Maybe changing the font types? Any suggestions for good ones?

[Etna]

I have Mandriva free 2010.2 with KDE and I'm trying to install the proprietary drivers for my Radeon x800 XL graphics card by following the guide on Mandriva community wiki. I have enabled the non-free and non-free updates repositories but when I open the graphical server configuration panel and try to select the graphics card I don't get any message about proprietary drivers.

The graphics settings are configured as follows:

Graphics card: ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier
Display: 1280x1024/60Hz
Resolution: Automatic (24bpp)

Of course you are not going to get anything: AMD has already long dropped support for the X-series graphics cards in Catalyst.

Those cards are now only supported via the free radeon and radeonhd driver. Which should already have been baked into the distro itself.

[gona]

Ok, thanks for the info. Old ATI cards don't seem to be the best option for Linux use...