4870 Linux Drivers

[kong132]

Does anyone know how I can get linux drivers? There was mention of them being available on the ati disk, but my sapphire card doesn't have them.

 

[Sylvanas]

The fglrx drivers (Propriatary 'Official' ATI driver) comes out every month now with the Windows drivers, you can find them on ati.amd.com . However, you might also want to try the Open source drivers which are gaining speed dramatically every day- most specifically the xf86-video-radeonhd driver which you can install Using these instructions . You can learn more about it here and here .

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas
The fglrx drivers (Propriatary 'Official' ATI driver) comes out every month now with the Windows drivers, you can find them on ati.amd.com . However, you might also want to try the Open source drivers which are gaining speed dramatically every day- most specifically the xf86-video-radeonhd driver which you can install Using these instructions . You can learn more about it here and here .

Good post, but the RadeonHD drivers have no 3D acceleration and minimal 2D acceleration. I'd go wit the ATI fglrx drivers for the time being. They've been released once a month for a while now and are fairly solid. The 8.7s should be arriving soon.