I have an Acer Travelmate 4600 Laptop which has the ATI X600 mobility graphic card fitted. According to the error I get running sgfxi ATI have dropped support for the fglxr driver. Is it possible to install the last available supported driver using sgfxi??

I am running Mepis 11 beta1 (Debian Squeeze) on the laptop. I am hoping that this is possible as I want to update my desktop PC to Mepis 11 and that has a ATI card that is no longer supported

Tim
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sadly, the entire ati x.... card series basically screwed all ATI card purchasers. Keep this in mind next time you make your only relevant voting decision, what to buy. Nvidia has never done anything this bad to its users. Current non free drivers only support the hd.... series.

You can very briefly install 9-3 if you are running the old Lenny Xorg, but as of Squeeze, that won't be installable any longer since it only works with older xorgs.

You'll be left with radeon, if you have the new Xorg, that's not too bad, with a new kernel and firmware.

sgfxi -N radeon
or
sgfxi -N radeonhd
if the first doesn't work will install the xorg driver. If it works, just leave it alone and shrug your shoulders and vow to never support a hardware company that removes support for full features of the card they sold you so soon after the card's release.
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Thanks I inherited the laptop so not a lot I could do about that, but any new video card will now be Nvidia.

Used the sgfxi -N radeon option without a problem

Thanks
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