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ubuntu 9.04 can't recognize Graphics Card of w500
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:29 am
by waterloo2005
w500 has a FireGL V5700 Graphics Card, but lspci shows it is Mobility Radeon HD 3650.
Do I need to update bios?
thanks
waiting on line....
Re: ubuntu 9.04 can't recognize Graphics Card of w500
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:18 am
by Superego
No, you don't need to update your BIOS; the Mobility FireGL card is based on the Mobility Radeon HD card. It's essentially the same card with some OpenGL features enabled for CAD use. As far as the drivers go, I think you need to use the open-source fglrx driver as the proprietary ATI driver doesn't support the new Xorg server in 9.04. You may want to poke around the Ubuntu forums to find a clear set of instructions regarding installation and configuration.
Re: ubuntu 9.04 can't recognize Graphics Card of w500
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:09 am
by waterloo2005
Superego wrote:No, you don't need to update your BIOS; the Mobility FireGL card is based on the Mobility Radeon HD card. It's essentially the same card with some OpenGL features enabled for CAD use. As far as the drivers go, I think you need to use the open-source fglrx driver as the proprietary ATI driver doesn't support the new Xorg server in 9.04. You may want to poke around the Ubuntu forums to find a clear set of instructions regarding installation and configuration.
fglrx is closed driver .
open is radeon or radeonhd .
thanks
Re: ubuntu 9.04 can't recognize Graphics Card of w500
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:37 am
by Superego
Ooops....got the names mixed up!
Re: ubuntu 9.04 can't recognize Graphics Card of w500
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:09 pm
by untitled_no4
You don't have to use the open source driver if you prefer the proprietary fglrx as this card is still supported by ATI on the new drivers. I use T500 with the same card and fglrx works fine under 9.04 and 9.10.