Redefined Horizons wrote:
I talked a buddy of mine into installing Linux on his new computer in a dual-boot environment with MS Windows. He was able to get the operating system installed without any major problems. However, he is having some problem with his graphics card. He is using the ATI Sapphire Radeon 1650. Does anyone now if it is still necessary to go through these steps to install support for the video card?
If his problems are anything like mine he would do better buying a non-ATI replacement! Mine is a recently purchased Sapphire X1550 and it - predictably - doesn't work as anything other than VESA, which limits it to a stretched (very) 1280 x 1024 resolution, instead of the VIewSonic's native 1680 x 1050.
It doesn't even work with Windows XP (apologies for the language) via the DVI port and neither Sapphire, nor ATI are prepared to offer useful support.
Best of luck. Peter HB