01-10-2009
Dear csorhand,
I have tried that many a times but my system is not so strong to meet the needs of newer operating systems. My specs are:->
AMD Athlon64 3200+ pro
Ati Radeon Xpress 200 chipset mobo
512 MB DDR RAM
80 GB Seagate HDD
I bought it in August 2006. It's quite old now.
I wanted to learn more about Unix & Linux and this can be accomplished only through using them.
Thanks for your advice. But if you know the answer to my quest please tell me, I'll take the risks.
Thanks in advance!
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ATI(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual ATI(4)
NAME
ati - ATI video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "ati"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
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 appropriate.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The ati driver supports Radeon, Rage 128, and Mach64 and earlier chipsets by loading those drivers. See those manpages for specific cards
supported.
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details, and the specific card driver for driver configuration details.
SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7), r128(4), radeon(4)
AUTHORS
See the individual driver pages for authors.
X Version 11 xf86-video-ati 6.14.99 ATI(4)