Want graphics driver

[Randymanme]

Does any one know where I can download a driver for a ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c)  graphics card?  The Radeon didn't work for me.

Thanks for any help.

[gseaman]

I believe the ati mach64 based cards will support your graphics card. If not, try the xorg ati driver. These are all options from PCLinuxos Control Center, not drivers that you download.

Galen

[T6]

"Does any one know where I can download a driver for a ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP"

older than dirt

ati abandoned this and all rage video cars in 2003 or 2004, xorg ati is the only option

open pclinux control center/hardware/setup the graphical server/graphic card

there you can try the mach 64(too old) or rage 128 with or without 3d support(without), forget the tv out

if you can, time to change this video card, if it is agp it is very easy to do, if it is pci, time to change pc

[Randymanme]

Thank you very much!  Right on the money.  I just didn't know where to look.  This is the very first time I've ever had 3D effects, and I'm pleased as punch.  I choose the Radeon 9500 to X1050; it seemed to test best.

Regards

[T6]

          

what?  that driver is not supposed to work 

[Randymanme]

Well, as it turned out, the driver didn't work out.  It seems that when I first install any of a few of the older drivers, the immediate effect is desireable.  But, then, things go downhill from there. When I installed the Rage 128-based cards, and logged back in, I couldn't get past the boot splash.  Safe boot said "No screens found."

When I try going to the ATI Catalyst Control Center, I get the following message:

Initialization Error. There was a problem initializing Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.  It could be caused by the following.  No ATI graphics driver is installed, or the ATI driver is not functioning properly.  Please install the appropriate driver for your ATI hardware or configure using aticonfig.  Isn't ATI Catalyst Control Center for ATI configuration?  Is there some other aticonfig?

During system installation, the ATI Mach-64-based cards is installed.  That's what I've ultimately decided to use.  It does enable 3D effects.

But what I find is that when 3D effects are enabled, the windows don't have the minimize, maximize, close icons at the upper right hand top of the window.  Is Compiz supposed to do that? Now most windows do have file, edit, help on the upper left hand corner, so I can click file and quit.  But it would be more convenient to be able to just minimize.  But some windows, like Firefox's library (under History) don't have "File."  Looking up History has the effect of stopping the whole show because, then, the library window is just there -- no minimize icon and no file tab either.  The only two options are to reboot or disable 3D desktop effects -- which in the case of the latter, I still have to log out.  Does Kwin do that, too?  How can I get Kwin on KDE 3 (I like it better than KDE 4)?

Any help given me will be deeply appreciated, as is the help already given me.

[T6]

"But what I find is that when 3D effects are enabled, the windows don't have the minimize, maximize, close icons at the upper right hand top of the window.  Is Compiz supposed to do that?"

compiz is designed to work with a more recent hardware, with at least 64 mbs of ram(some reports of 32 mbs), better with 128 but your card only has 8 or 16 mbs of ram, not enough

i had seen some posts talking about this happening, no buttons on the window, it is a driver and settings combination but on your situation no setting will fix it afik

your video card is not enough for the task you want to accomplish

about catalyst, remove it, that app only works with a valid/recent driver and the video card you have was abandoned a long time ago by ati(around 2000) and even worse, it could be a pci bus card isn't?

something about ati rage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Rage

75mhz processor 

[richdave]

I am having the same problem on a Gateway machine with an I7 920 proc, 9 gigs DDR3 ram, and an RV 770 (Radeon HD 4850) video card and I am having the same issue with the buttons on the left.  Compiz is pretty nifty, but the missing buttons are a deal breaker for mere:Compiz.  I would really like to know if this is fixable.