Enabling ATI Radeon Mobility M300 on Linux

March 26, 2006 | In: Fedora Core, How-To

Playing Q3 on a Dell Latitude – D610 is tough without your ATI card supporting your moves

This is how to enable support for your ATI Radeon Mobility M300…
[btw, just to mention, I'm using Dell Latitude - D610 notebook]

1) Go to ATI’s website & download the driver install system
To be more generic, www.ati.com > Drivers & Software > Linux Display Drivers and Software > Linux x86 > Notebooks with ATI Graphics > ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Drivers for XFREE86 / X. Org Version 8.23.7 > ATI Driver Installer [download]

2) Download the file mentioned in step (1) & give it executable permissions with “chmod +x file-name.run”

3) Run the installer & choose default installation when asked for default/custom install.

4) Once the installation finishes, run “aticonfig –initial”

5) Reboot! You’ll experience a change in resolution once you reboot & relogin to your desktop.

6) Run & play Q3/Doom3 happily