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  1. 02-25-2010 #1
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    What display driver Should I have??

    OK I'll be honest the issue of graphics drivers has always, and continues to confuse me. Partly because I've never seen a clear explanation of the various options available and reasons for installing etc etc etc.
    But that's neither here or there for now....

    I want to be sure that I have my display optimised. i.e. the best I can achieve on this laptop. Could someone please tell me what driver(s) SHOULD I have installed. My details are:

    Compaq Presario M2000 notebook
    Processor: AMD Turion 64
    Display: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
    Ubuntu 9.10

    Synaptic shows I have the following right now:

    xserver-xorg-video-ati
    xserver-xorg-video-radeon
    radeon-tool
    xserver-xorg-video-mach64
    xserver-xorg-video-r128
    fglrx-modaliases

    It maybe I've got it all as it is but since I'm wondering if I might have slight refresh issue at times I'd like to be sure I'm doing the best I can.
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    You should use default ati driver for Xpress 200M card. fglrx has dropped support for 200M card around first quarter of 2009.

    Just un-install fglrx ( if you have installed it earlier ) and configure xorg.conf file manaully to use "ati" driver.

    Follow instructions from this tutorial.
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    Quote Originally Posted by devils casper View Post
    You should use default ati driver for Xpress 200M card. fglrx has dropped support for 200M card around first quarter of 2009.

    Just un-install fglrx ( if you have installed it earlier ) and configure xorg.conf file manaully to use "ati" driver.

    Follow instructions from this tutorial.
    Ok thanks for that! I presume apart from that I'm set up OK?
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    Everything should work fine. Do let us know how it goes.
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