{"id":44,"date":"2006-11-18T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-11-18T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T11:07:09","slug":"suggestions-for-an-ati-card-to-test-the-ati-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/suggestions-for-an-ati-card-to-test-the-ati-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions for an ATI card to test the ATI driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My old ATI card is not supported any more by the ATI driver (fglrx) since version 8.28.8.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason I can&#8217;t test the latest ATI driver which I provide in my repositories (for both Dapper and Edgy) and I can only test the Nvidia driver.<\/p>\n<p>The ATI driver is causing more problems than the Nvidia one and I have a few users complaining about their problems with that driver in this thread:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=255929\"> http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=255929<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and here in the Italian forum<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.ubuntu-it.org\/index.php?topic=37927.0\">http:\/\/forum.ubuntu-it.org\/index.php?topic=37927.0<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nBut let&#8217;s get to the point: I need a new ATI card to test and tweak the driver which I provide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The requirements for the card which I&#8217;m looking for are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> it should be a <strong>cheap<\/strong> card<br \/>\n<strong>*<\/strong> it should be an <strong>AGP<\/strong> card (since my mobo has no PCI-E slots)<br \/>\n<strong>*<\/strong> it should be <strong>supported<\/strong> by the latest ATI driver.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of the cards which are currently supported:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/a248.e.akamai.net\/f\/674\/9206\/0\/www2.ati.com\/drivers\/linux\/linux_8.31.5.html\"> https:\/\/a248.e.akamai.net\/f\/674\/9206\/0\/www2.ati.com\/drivers\/linux\/linux_8.31.5.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather buy a card of the X series (e.g. X800) so as to be sure that the support for it won&#8217;t be dropped soon.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any suggestions about the model I might buy, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old ATI card is not supported any more by the ATI driver (fglrx) since version 8.28.8. For this reason I can&#8217;t test the latest ATI driver which I provide in my repositories (for both Dapper and Edgy) and I can only test the Nvidia driver. The ATI driver is causing more problems than the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/suggestions-for-an-ati-card-to-test-the-ati-driver\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}