ATI Radeon 8500 Drivers

[Palandri]

I just installed the ATI Radeon 8500 drivers on my SuSE 8.0 System.

http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver...00x420143.html

I kept screwing it up by running SAX2, rather than the fglrxfconfig file.

I just tested the drivers in UT and it played well and the graphics were good

Two things problems that I have noted are:

I lost the scroll wheel on my mouse

My desktop fonts are screwed up They look like the old netscape fonts

Both problems ought to be easy to fix

[Eggs]

Hows the performance of the 8500 in linux compare to the Geforce 3?

[Palandri]

Originally posted by Eggs
Hows the performance of the 8500 in linux compare to the Geforce 3?

The 8500 seems to be on par now with the ti200. I was getting real tired of the 2D support and was planning on going to http://www.xig.com/ and getting their drivers if no 3D drivers came out.

[Eggs]

Thats not too bad, I ended up trading my 8500 for a Geforce3 just to have 3d support. Sounds like a good deal now though.

[Palandri]

If the drivers didn't come out soon I was going to get the xig drivers. I used the xig drivers for my Rage Fury 32MB when it first came out.

I waited about 3 months for Xfree86 to come out with the Rage Fury drivers, and then gave up, so I got the xig drivers becuase I needed to play quake

[lnsane]

Palandri any help for someone who just cant get these drivers to install?? Im on MDK9.0 and Radeon8500... just cant get it to run

[Eggs]

Perhaps you should pm the people who started these threads instead of bringing them back from the past hehe.

[lnsane]

I go by whatever works Thanks for the help though.