Big problem bugging me

[Shadowa21]

Alright, I love Linux. But I also am a heavy gamer. PC, PS2, Wii, Original xbox(People still play online with these, Yeah baby ).

My computer hit a tiny snag...My Laptop.

Made in 2003?

1 gig and half of ram.
A fast cpu.
A ATI Raedon 7500 M.
Oh yeah, A nice huge screen and it runs nicely.

OS: Ubuntu Maverick, Originally the netbook install but I changed the GUI to ubuntu...Netbook GUI is horrible.

-Now, what do I need help on? The gaming. Play JKA, Aka jedi knight jedi academy-20-18 FPS. i need around 60+? ...Even higher than that. Well,

I believe it is using open source drivers, because its not in the drivers utility, and I saw Xorg stuff in the Package manager.

Well, I asked a friend and he told me the open source are great, but my Video card is too old-And their is no support on the property for my drivers.

Well, If you got something old-Getting new software for old hardware is bad, right?

How do I install property drivers, the old ones? Im a newbie at linux to say, I have a little bit of experience with the GUI, And I got a reinstallation disc if anything goes bad.

-How do I, in instrurctions for a idiot/Newbie-Install property, or old property drivers for my Video card so I can get DECENT FPS? And play my Windows games...
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Ty...Asked on Ubuntu forums, I made 3 posts-Waited 3 weeks, everyone ignores me and I even used search and found nuthing.

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Or how to make the opensource work better as I heard people tweaked them when they DL them to make them work for windows games?

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[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

Could you post the output of

lspci -nn | grep VGA

Also, how are you playing these games?
Are they Linux native? Or are you using Wine?

[Shadowa21]

Well.

Wine, However: On my other Computers this game works perfectly: Jedi Knight Jedi Academy. Im even having some problems running Age of Empires, The problems are usually video-fps wise.
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57]

[jayd512]

I'm seeing quite a few reports from folks mentioning the same frame rate issue for that card.
Perhaps you could launch the game from the terminal, adding the -opengl option.

[Shadowa21]

How? And would Property Drivers make a difference? FGLRX, Right?

[devils casper]

Have installed proprietary drivers?
Post the output of this

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Shadowa21]

No such file or directory.

I did catfish, found a xorg.conf file-for nouva drivers or something. In /ect, though it seems its comp empty in everything inside.

--Terminal idiot, but starting to learn.
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Not yet, I will. I need assurance, Whenever I want to it says when I want to remove open source, it will uninstall ubuntu netbook desktop, so....After I install the FLGRX, ect? Do what, I am a bit scared, I know uninstall Xorg, then have FGLRX imminently installed afterwards, ticked as well as xorg before I uninstall, but what..No idea what to do...As Im not a expert with the Terminal, but I want to learn and am...

[oz]

Im not a expert with the Terminal, but I want to learn

Hello and welcome aboard!

If you want to learn more about working from the command line in a console or terminal, be sure to check out this website for some quick and easy lessons when you have some spare time:

LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line

[Shadowa21]

Step 1: open package manager.
Step 2: Type in Xorg, click uninstall and all other stuff.
Step 3: Type in FLGRX, Install it all.
Step 4: Finished, nothing appeared in Device manager, so I reinstalled other.

[Shadowa21]

Dependency error: It looked like FLGRX was installed, but because of a dependency it looked like it, but nothing was installed.

Error: No instanes of moduel FLGRX...So it won't install?