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are there any opensource VGA drivers

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http://askubuntu.com – are there any open-source VGA drivers i seem to remember that back when i was using 10.10 or an older one that people where writing some opensource vga drivers for linux but i can't seem to find a webpage for that project? i was wondering cause i like the idea and want to install it and report bug fixes cause ubuntu with opensource VGA drivers somehow I find the idea to be fun and who knows maybe they will be even better/stable than the proprietary versions (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 03/22/2012 – Made popular on 03/22/2012

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I am currently using a 5770, but the problem is the drivers ati provided aren't really good. Does anyone know of open source drivers?

Also im fairly new to linux/ubuntu. :D

ATI Catalyst drivers slowness 1 year 15 weeks ago

I have managed to install the drivers, but after installing those drivers moving different windows such as browser is very laggy.

Why is that? I also tried older drivers, but they all have the same problem. I have ATI Radeon HD5850.

I installed this driver: AMD Catalyst™ 11.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver.

Installing ATi drivers 2 years 21 weeks ago

Hello,I've just installed Crunchbang Statler on my laptop (feels at home again :D)But I was wondering on how to install my videocard's drivers again. On Crunchbang 9.04 I downloaded them from the ATi website and install them and on Arch I'd use the opensource drivers through pacman.How would I do this on Debian?

OK so I just got Ubuntu the other month or so. I'm running the 11.04 version currently and trying to install drivers for a Nvidia graphics card (it's my brother's computer and he currently cannot find the number of the card right now). I read that, to install the proper drivers for gaming, I would need to go into "Additional Drivers" and choose them myself.

Recently Intel released their opensource driver tool (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloa...hics-installer) which auto-selects the right drivers for your intel chipset. Because I started using Steam on Linux to play some older games I thought I would use the Intel 'official' drivers to ensure I get the best performance.

Currently I'm running the AMD chip full time with fglrx drivers, and I get OK battery life. I would like to get another hour or two though, which I feel is quite possible by switching to the Intel HD4000 chip. In reading the forums I see that it's possible to do via EFI boot, some kernel patches, using both opensource drivers, and vgaswitcheroo.

That isn't quite ideal though.

TweetSo, I blew my Graphic card today  and while troubleshooting the issue I tried to install proprietary Nvidia drivers. But in order to do that you are required to remove nouveau drivers from the system.

I have a built-in HD4200 which can be run alongside my HD6870, at least it could until ATI seperated the drivers. In Windows I have had to downgrade to 12.4 and stay there, but that isn't possible in linux without downgrading the kernel, and everything that relies on it. I think the opensource driver will run them all together, but it had terrible tearing the last time I used it.

When I was using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I could install the proprietary driver from the specific menu from the settings but since I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 it can't find any proprietary drivers. I know where the menu is now in transferred (Software Sources > Additional Drivers tab) so don't think that is the reason.

How could I install proprietary drivers in Ubuntu 12.10?

Thanks