What drivers do you use for older ATI 9500-9800 video cards?

[brjoon1021]

I have two of those cards and have not tried to install a proprietary or the new(er) open source drivers since I had problems months back. What would you suggest to use with ultimate 1.7 for those cards ?

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[Cab]

This is a snippet I took from a post in newbies corner. I dont run a ATi card right now but your cards were on the list.


I can only presume from his statement, (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
That unlike Nvidia, Ati doesn't have three distinct ranges of Video cards
that each match-up to a specific driver.
It would appear, If you have one of the cards listed below

Your first driver choice should be
Version 8.3 (Which is the newest)

Your second driver choice should be
Version 8.28.8

Your Last driver choice should be
Version 8.40.4
(because this driver doesn't work with the Composite Extension it should only be used as a last resort)

Cab

[drama]

**ati mahn swoops in** i just checked. you can use the latest fglrx driver. as of current them cards are still supported. this will pro b change in the near future. but as of now its still supported by the latest driver.

[Revro]

i have ati all in wonder 128 based on ati rage 128. i looked and it seems there are no drivers for this card. or do you know which driver i could use?

thank you
revro

[drama]

@revro your correct that card is far to old for the fglrx driver. you would have to use the open source "ati" driver. this is the default in ubuntu so it should already be using it. im not sure what features are available in that driver but i do know that unfortunately taht is your only option.