Hey, this is my first post. I just got a 5870. Nothing worked with the basic drivers (just a low res desktop environment) when I checked the hardware drivers (system -> administration-> hardware drives, there was an available ATi driver) i installed the fglrx driver. Now i have full hardware acceleration, but i also got this ugly Unsupported Hardware watermark in the bottom right of my screen. can someone help me out here? A semi-detailed walkthough would be nice, I've only been using Linux for a couple of weeks and am still learining.
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What version of the fglrx driver did it install?
I don't own an ati card, but from what forum posters say it sounds like fglrx does that when it's support for a certain model of card is untested.
Probably the best you can do is try to upgrade to a newer version of the driver or ask if there is some way to turn off the watermark.
I just googled and found this:
I just setup my new computer that has onboard video and Installed Linux Mint. I installed the "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" from Hardware Drivers and now I have a watermark on the bot...
So it looks like sometimes even downgrading the driver can help.
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