ubuntu on asus g2, help.

[giorgiomartini]

hi , i got an asus g2 , i want to use it mainly for multimedia creation(blender and others) and music creation also.

thisl laptop has a movility radeon x1700 but in this page


http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

there's only drivers for the x1600 and x1800 ,

do you know if i can still install ubuntu on my asus g2 ?

maybe if i use the x1800 drivers , they can do it.

i got vista preinstalled and i want to install also ubuntu studio,
in vista the video card is working , whren i install ubuntu i need the ati drivers for linux right ?

[Zhenech]

As there is only one fglrx (why the hell ATI/AMD give thousands of search-paths to ONE driver?!), it should work with your 1700, yes.
Just try it.

[tekmate]

You can run Ubuntu live from the CD to see if the card works before commiting to removing Windows.