[Wine] ati mobility X1400 being recognized as a geforce 3 card

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 18 20:26:22 CST 2010


rashj3 wrote:
> I don't use the fglrx driver, I was recommended to use the Radeon driver since the X1400 is legacy by ATI's standards and the current Catalyst linux drivers don't support legacy. I haven't had any other issues with the Radeon driver. Just frustrating ATI doesn't like to support linux very much. 
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Hmmm.  That may be why your card is mis-identified.  Can you try the
Catalyst driver anyway.  I have an X1600 in my MacBookPro and I would
not consider this card 'legacy'.

> This has probably been answered before, but can you install ATI drivers for Windows via wine and have it work? Or wine is solely based off the linux drivers?
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No.  Wine does not support Windows video drivers.

James McKenzie




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