hello, I recently installed Lubuntu for a htpc. I was wondering , should I install the fglrx package ? or should i leave the deafult driver ?? My graphics card is a ATI HD4850 and I would like to squeeze out the max performance out of it for some steam-gaming as well. Obviously I won'[t be playing latest blockbuster games.
If you want the best performance, then I would say yes. Your card might be considered legacy though and may require manual installation of the driver. But run ubuntus driver tool first and see how you get on.
umm so what is this ubuntu driver tool ? can i get it on Lubuntu ? i see that fglrx supports my card btw: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
There's a tool in the menu somewhere called additional drivers, it should be under system or settings or something like that on LUbuntu. You run the tool, it determines what graphics cards are on the system(and some other devices but mainly graphics cards) you then select whether you want the proprietary or the open source driver and then that's pretty much it. http://askubuntu.com/questions/47506/how-do-i-install-additional-drivers
cool thanks i'll check it. I usually do things from command line and i'm not very familiar with gui tools
I installed fglrx on debian through the CLI. Its wasn't too bad, but using that gui app is much more straight foward.
If the driver is in the Ubuntu Repositories, it'll be available in Lubuntu or any of the *buntu falvours [also Linux Mint] IIRC for installing AMD drivers in terminal it's Code: sudo -s apt-get install fglrx amdconfig --initial reboot There are additional packages for hardware acceleration IIRC but I can't remember their names.
