[SOLVED] ATI Radeon open source drivers

[jas51384]

Hi everybody, I'm sure this questioned has been asked but I'm trying to install these drivers after I extract the tar file i run ./configure file but at the end it tells me no package xorg-server, xproto, fontsproto. So i went to install xorg-server and that ./configure tells me i need X11.
looks to me that im doing things backwards so what i'm asking is if anybody knows the steps for me to follow from step 1
thank in advance.

John

[reed9]

What distro are you using?

[jas51384]

see i knew i would forget something. It's ubuntu 9.10 the video card is a ATI Radeon X1600pro

[reed9]

Best way to do it would be to install the driver via your package manager.

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeon

[jas51384]

ok sounds simple I'll give it a try

[devils casper]

Have you tried Restricted Driver? Just check in System - Administration -- Hardware Drivers. If it finds any driver for your card, install from there only.

[jas51384]

ok it tells me that xserver-xorg-video-radeon is already the newest. so I'm at a loss. i thought i need these drivers for the card to work properly and enable 3d. when i look at the xorg.conf file its blank.

[jas51384]

Have you tried Restricted Driver? Just check in System - Administration -- Hardware Drivers. If it finds any driver for your card, install from there only.

I have done this and no drivers are listed

[devils casper]

Are there any Display problems?

Post the output of this

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[reed9]

ATI dropped support for older cards with their newer catalyst drivers. The recent catalyst drivers only support R600 and newer cards. The X1600 is an RV530.

DRI Wiki - ATIRadeon

I'm pretty sure the radeon driver should provide 3D acceleration these days with your card, though. I would have though Ubuntu includes it by default...