[clug] ATI drivers and Ubuntu/linux in general

[Hal Ashburner]

Sunnz wrote:
>
> I thought they had the "radeon" driver now in X.org that it the new
> and cool open source driver written from the specs?
>
> I have never used ATi so I am not that sure... radeon is a line of GPU
> made by ATi right?
>   
Right, yes it's shorthand. From $ man ati

       ati  is  an  Xorg  wrapper  driver  for ATI video cards.  It 
autodetects
       whether your hardware has a Radeon, Rage 128, or Mach64 or 
earlier class
       of chipset, and loads the radeon(4), r128(4), or mach64 driver as 
appro‐
       priate.