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OK. I have officially moved off of Ubuntu and onto Debian Lenny. I like everything but I want alittle more wow factor. I have tried to install ATI drivers, but none have my card. I have tried open source and closed source, but still nothing.
At this point I'm not really sure of what to ask, but if anyone would like to help that would be nice. I have ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]. I even tried to cheat my way out by installing ubuntu gusty(the last Ubuntu edition to have working 3D) and copied the xorg.conf file over to the debian partition, but forgot that I need the drivers and modules from the Ubuntu, which I don't have. Any idea on how to get those drivers for the card. And the drivers at ATI's website are not my card so they were no help.

i have problem mandriva linux graphic driver
have you any simple documentation?

ok, This is now solved for me atleast, I don't know if it will help for the person that posted above me though. Ok, here it goes. I have been trying to get mesa on this computer, with the radeon mobility 7500. i just redid the computer I am typing on with Debian LennyBeta 2, most recent version, and I have compiz and had compiz-fusion, until i deleted it. I had to add the repository:

Code:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/unstable/ ./

. and when I downloaded the files, a dependency called something like "mesa-util" was downloaded and that took care of the mesa drivers, I think. thou i also changed my xorg.conf file to this for the video driver:

Code:

Section "Device"
	Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 7500 M7 (RV200 LW)"
	Driver "radeon"
	BusID "PCI:1:0:0"	
#	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
#	newstuff
	Option 		"RenderAccel" "true"
	Option		"AGPMode" "4"
	Option		"AGPFastWrite" "true"
	Option		"EnablePageFlip" "True"
EndSection

And now it works perfectly.

though to Bazuka, I can not guarantee any success via this method for you, but it would be worth a shot. I would recommend making a small partition and installing Mandriva and trying it there before doing anything on your main partition if you don't feel like having to uninstall something if xorg goes wrong

Texasone, another option you might try for the ATI driver is to install envyng from snaptic package manager and allow envy to select and configure xorg.conf. I use envy to set up some rather old video boards and have had much success with the results. As for changing the vdu on the laptop,I could not tell you but as there is a bug in the ati driver , you may continue to have problems with that particular setup. As before,please update with any results you may have. Good luck

hey, thanks. I will go on tomorrow and put debian on the system and try that out. I'm still a newbie so is there any other file you want results from besides xorg.conf?

I actually had a problem with my graphics card it would not work properly in the vanilla Heron set-up but after a couple of updates it's all working fine - don;t know why but I suspect a kernel upgrade has done the trick.