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I really like the new Ubuntu. However, I can't get my GPU to work with it. I tried different drivers and guides, no luck.
It's a ATI 6990.

Can someone recommend a high end card that will work? I am keeping windows on another drive and would like to play a game or 2 of BF3.

Thanks
 
blogbytes said:
I really like the new Ubuntu. However, I can't get my GPU to work with it. I tried different drivers and guides, no luck.
It's a ATI 6990.

Can someone recommend a high end card that will work? I am keeping windows on another drive and would like to play a game or 2 of BF3.

Thanks
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Below is link on how to install your ATI GFX card under Linux, my 6870 runs really fast with the latest ati drivers.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
 
blogbytes said:
I really like the new Ubuntu. However, I can't get my GPU to work with it. I tried different drivers and guides, no luck.
It's a ATI 6990.

Can someone recommend a high end card that will work? I am keeping windows on another drive and would like to play a game or 2 of BF3.

Thanks
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On the question of running BF3 i run it at an avarage of 40fps with everything on high and 4x AA your card is a beast and must be atlreast double the speed of mine. The 6990 is a top range ati card that goes for about R7000, you are doing something wrong ....

It seems you have more money than brains ...
 
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I usually prefer Nvidia cards over ATI cards, specifically because I don't like having performance or even just plain driver issues in Linux. If Intel cards performed well, I would go with them over NVidia because their drivers are open source, but even nowadays, NVidia stays king in performance on Linux.
 
Dude, make that card work. Or give it to me and buy a nVidia GeForce GTX 690
 
Tinuva said:
I usually prefer Nvidia cards over ATI cards, specifically because I don't like having performance or even just plain driver issues in Linux. If Intel cards performed well, I would go with them over NVidia because their drivers are open source, but even nowadays, NVidia stays king in performance on Linux.
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I am a Steam beta tester for Linux and the ATI and NVIDIA drivers are on par since Valve got involved. My nvidia gt580 runs just as well as my ati 6870.

The drivers argument is out of the door now and becoming a myth. The driver issues was there a year ago but there is huge strides being made on the driver side with Valve working with Nvidia and AMD/ATI on getting the issues sorted.

My Intel card on my laptop gets an avarage of 30fps and my bumblebee nvidia gt520m gets about 58 with TF2 and about 43 FPS with Serious Sam 3.

My desktop's gets over 180 to 200 fps in tf2 and about 93 fps in Serious Sam 3.
 
GoofySmurf said:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
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Thanks. Been there and done that. Tried every method mentioned on there. Once the drivers are installed, the card is not being picked up.

GoofySmurf said:
On the question of running BF3 i run it at an avarage of 40fps with everything on high and 4x AA your card is a beast and must be atlreast double the speed of mine. The 6990 is a top range ati card that goes for about R7000, you are doing something wrong ....
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If you read my first post again you will notice that I am not asking how many FPS I can get in BF3, but yes, it is about 3x more than with your card.

GoofySmurf said:
It seems you have more money than brains ...
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Not going to argue with trolls, you will just lower me to your level then beat me with experience.
 
blogbytes said:
I really like the new Ubuntu. However, I can't get my GPU to work with it. I tried different drivers and guides, no luck.
It's a ATI 6990.

Can someone recommend a high end card that will work? I am keeping windows on another drive and would like to play a game or 2 of BF3.

Thanks
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Have you tried latest ATI beta drivers?

Have you tried the latest(Gallium OpenGL 3.0) open source drivers? These work well with newer kernels(available here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/).
 
Best of luck...I am using Gallium drivers with an older card & performance is on par with proprietary drivers!
 
oldhat said:
Best of luck...I am using Gallium drivers with an older card & performance is on par with proprietary drivers!
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What card are you using? I'm also on the Linux Steam beta, using a 4870 (yes I know, overdue for an upgrade) and I'm getting sub par performance with the ATI drivers on Serious Sam 3. Game is playable on Windows but slower on Linux (~15fps), I'm trying to rule out bad drivers as the cause before complaining.
 
I'm runnning the beta ati drivers, had issues with the stable release. It works like a charm ;)
 
Mouse said:
What card are you using? I'm also on the Linux Steam beta, using a 4870 (yes I know, overdue for an upgrade) and I'm getting sub par performance with the ATI drivers on Serious Sam 3. Game is playable on Windows but slower on Linux (~15fps), I'm trying to rule out bad drivers as the cause before complaining.
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Using AMD4650 on Linux rig :(
 
I tried on two separate machines with two different Nvidia cards and they both have the same Unity disappearing act problem. I followed about thirty different proposed solutions and nothing worked, so good luck to you...
 
DJ... said:
I tried on two separate machines with two different Nvidia cards and they both have the same Unity disappearing act problem. I followed about thirty different proposed solutions and nothing worked, so good luck to you...
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Did you add the X-Swat edgers PPA and install the latest drivers from there?
It could also be a Unity related issue and nothing to with nvidia.
 
ponder said:
Did you add the X-Swat edgers PPA and install the latest drivers from there?
It could also be a Unity related issue and nothing to with nvidia.
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Yip, tried that method too without luck...
 
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