Rohan McLeod wrote:
Russell Coker wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Rohan McLeod<rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
I picked up a :"ati-102-a59401-00(B)";video card at the Box Hill swap-meet today. Install it on a Linux system, run "lspci", and then put the relevant output line into Google. That almost always works. It seems to be a "ATI FireMV 2400 PCI; 4 x 64MB"; at least that Win32-XP driver works, and shows a choice of 1-4 monitors ....is it too exotic to hope to find a Linux driver ?
You don't "find" a linux driver for GPUs. There are a handful of standard drivers, and they either work or they don't (as at a given version of the driver -- upgrading/downgrading the driver sometimes helps). It will almost certainly work with VESA driver. radeon(4) tells you what the open-source driver supports -- a good rule of thumb is probably something like "is it 6mo older than the distro release I'm running on it?" I cannot comment on the non-free ATI driver (fglrx). Even people that like non-free drivers seem to hate the ATI one. Google the lspci string as you were told -- in particular the xxxx:yyyy number (lspci -nn). Boot a live CD similar to the distro/release you want to ultimately run.