Please Help, new to Ubnutu 7.04 and I dont understand how to install my ATi graphics mobo drivers

[funboy6942]

I dont understand this code crap, I try to read it all and it looks and soaks into my head as if it is all written in a different language and I just cannot comprehend it at all.

All I want to do is install my mobo all in one drivers, I down loaded it, and I am supposed to open some kind of crap I dont understand, and the install says to type run file, for the life of me I have no damn clue where to type that in, and I am just about at my wits end with this and tell my friend who told me I just had to go get the open source software to pack it up his ass with sunshine, and continue to have windows packed up my ass with sunshine.

It started off looking cool up to this point, when I tried to run some graphical stuff, like some hd stuff I recorded and is on my server that played fine on the same box, with the same hardware, but stumbles massively with this one. And to top it off my Linksys wireless-g usb adapter cannot find my wireless network, and I just am not so sure this is for me. You seem to have to know codes, and run file this, place that there, squoi blow me here and there, and type this and that, when in windows all I had to do was double click and hit ok.

And then I sit here and its no wonder windows is making bank, for I can make, build, and siag a computer with my eyes closed, but when it comes to this stuff, if someone doesn't help me, or point me in the right way, and I cant seem to grasp it on my own double clicking and fumbling around, Im lost, as well as I am sure many millions other people are as well and just give up.

So help me Obi-won Kenobi your my only hope, before I wipe the drive clean in the AM and say screw this crap. Looks good, but not worth me getting all worked up making my high blood pressure even higher.

 

[xSauronx]

i dont see model numbers for your mobo or your wireless adapters. post them to get some help at all, because without specifics i dont see this going far.

also, try the ubuntu forums. the new user forum is *very* helpful.
once you get your hardware working properly, you may like it, but it *will* take some getting used to.

 

[funboy6942]

There is but the one driver for all ATi Mobo Enable Chips, I just need to know how one person installed it on theirs, for it wont matter what model it is, its all the same driver, for all the different boards, running a ATi chipset, on any Linux OS 🙂

As for my Linksys, atm dont care to much for that one, for if this is going to be this huge a pain in the ass, I wont bother installing that one, will just say screw it. Dont really want to, but I literally dont know what else to do, for anyone who tries to help me starts in with the computer lingo as if I had schooling in it, know how to write code, and its super easy. Unfortunately for me, I cant grasp the computer lingo, and need it told to me step by step, in normal, non computer lingo, as in click this, type that, hit enter there, done.

Not type /desktop,user/funboy/ati/cpu/graphics/.43.5656553434./to_the_5th_power/suckitsi
eways/install/gobberssnubes ok thats line one, now when the pc screen is flashing and you go into a seizure, when you wake up from it, pick up your teeth and tongue, and type........

I start reading that stuff and my mind starts to draw a blank and I cant grasp it any longer. Thats where I need the help, I need someone to hold my hand and baby step me through it. Im sure once I do one or 2 I can get it from there, but this first one is killing me.

 

[TSDible]

Go to the ubuntu forum, and search for Envy

It is a custom script that will automatically help you out.

 

[sourceninja]

I'm assuming you want to do this <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI</a>

Your post isn't very clear as to what you want to accomplish. If this is too complicated, I suggest waiting for dell to release their ubuntu linux machines and buying one preinstalled.


(I should point out that I do not think linux is for everyone, and I DO NOT want everyone to use linux. I want linux to cater to people like me. If everyone uses it it will become a stupid heap of junk just like windows. )

 

[nweaver]

eh....you don't need motherboard drivers in Linux...that's part of what makes it suck less then windows imho....

if you are looking for 3d accellerated drivers, then use the restricted drivers tool from System->Administration menu.

You were not born knowing where/how to go find drivers for windows, it took time too, you just forgot that. If you are not willing to put the time in to search around and find a solution, then I woudl just tell you to reboot into windows, as Linux may not be the OS for you.

That, or get someone who is knowledgable to install/configure/prepare it, then it's brainless. Similar to what Dell/HP/Gateway/Etc do for all the people who don't care what there computer is/runs, but just that they can get email, play online poker, and find some pr0n.

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I'm assuming you want to do this <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI</a></a>

Your post isn't very clear as to what you want to accomplish. If this is too complicated, I suggest waiting for dell to release their ubuntu linux machines and buying one preinstalled.


(I should point out that I do not think linux is for everyone, and I DO NOT want everyone to use linux. I want linux to cater to people like me. If everyone uses it it will become a stupid heap of junk just like windows. )

I build my own computers, be a cold day in hell when I buy a dell, that catch phrase is copywritten by funboy inc. cannot use without permission, expressed, written, or otherwise...2007🙂

I figured out the restricted drivers last night before going to bed, and even with that going some of my videos are playing back choppy, like a slide show, will be giving this a go again today, Im not one for quiting, I hate to quite, but it needs to get done today, and the next pc I put together I will hopefully have more time to play with it. Right now, I dont for I am selling this rig and I have to get it fully working with everything. Hence why I made this thread and was hoping for a quick easy reply to point me in the right direction, figure it out, understand what it is I have to do, learn this new system a bit, and take it from there.

 

[sourceninja]

ATI video cards and linux are a bad combo. Its always good to research hardware compatablity issues before you try to install an OS.

Hopefully the recent news of AMD open sourcing ATI's video drivers will fix this in a few years. But right now you are probably not going to resolve your issues. Throwing together parts to make a computer works in the windows world, it does not work in the linux world.

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
ATI video cards and linux are a bad combo. Its always good to research hardware compatablity issues before you try to install an OS.

Hopefully the recent news of AMD open sourcing ATI's video drivers will fix this in a few years. But right now you are probably not going to resolve your issues. Throwing together parts to make a computer works in the windows world, it does not work in the linux world.

I have come to understand this with all the reading I been doing. Turns out I dont have a problem, it is a normal thing with my hardware. I dont all I could do, installed all I could, even found the damn code line and stuck it in, would start to extract the driver, then give me a error saying some line doesnt match up with another line.

I have got the restricted driver going on it now, and even with that, it is just not doing what I am used to , and what I need it to do, which is a total shame, for I love the lay out with all the discovering I was doing within the program trying to fix a problem that want there.

I have another small computer I want to put together as a file server sometime soon when I can get my hands on the right mobo, and I have a old agp nvidia card laying around, that I have plans of putting this os onto that rig and messing around with it. It is very cool, I havent tried any other makes of the open source, but this one I like very much as my first one to try.

I appreciate all who have tried to help me, and those that were being asses, for even though, you still gave me the go head not to give up too soon, and keep trying.

I hate to lose, and I hate to give up. I link in the last 24 hours, I read all there is to read on the subject, and Im at a block till like you mentioned, ATi, gets off their asses, and allows open sources to their driver, shame, for all my rigs have ati cards and/or chipset 😛

 

[sourceninja]

If you are seriously going to use linux, I suggest making your file server command line only. Learn linux, then learn a gui.

You will thank me for it later.