Tony said:
Which linux distro are you using - RedHat, Slackware, Debian, Huh??
Gnome is just an application set - has no significance in your post.
Whether or not a file is executable in UNIX/Linux has nothing to do with the
file's extension. There is nothing inherently executable about the extension
.pl. What DOES determine whether a file is executable or not is a
combination of the file's "executable" attribute in the file system and
whether or not the file is a shell script and or conforms to the Linux
Binary executable specification (ELF).
Basically, you could have a file called "blahblah.cheesecakes". as long as
the file has an executable attribute on it (chmod +x) it will work like a
windows .exe.
You can download the appropriate 9800 Linux driver per X server version from
here
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/...od=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=15&submit.y=4
After that.............. ah, just fool around with it. You'll get it
eventually.
Didn't the original poster state that he was running linux in a VMWare
session? If so downloading and installing the ATI linux driver won't do
any good as the virtual video card that VMWare provides is a basic VESA
compatible card, hence why he can only get VESA driver working.
If he wants to utilise the full native capabilities of his card the best
thing to do would be to create some space on the hard drive for a new
dedicated partition or alternatively, buy another decent sized hard
drive (an 80GB drive these days is only £60) and install linux directly
onto the available partition/drive.
This will then allow linux to recognise all of the available physical
hardware in the machine including the 9800pro. Now if you download the
Linux driver from ATI's website and fool around with it, you'll
eventually get it working with full hardware support.
The Alternative is to use a VMWare supported version of Linux, i.e.
Redhat, Mandrake, Suse etc and follow the instructions for installing
linux (usually involves using the text only installer, not the graphical
installer) and once linux is installed, then installing the VMWare Tools
package which installs the VMWare X Server and mouse/keyboard support.
Note regarding VMWare: VMware provides you with a virtual machine
environment that you can use to run any kind of X86 compatible OS. What
it *does not* do is provide each native virtual machine with an exact
copy of your hardware. In other words each VM *does not* have it's own
9800pro to play with.
VMWare uses known hardware emulation for various devices which may exist
on your phsyical machine. For example your physical machine may have a
3Com Gigabit Ethernet NIC but each of your Virtual Machines uses an AMD
PCNET Family PCI NIC. In the same way your physical PC has an ATI 9800
Pro in it each of your virtual machines have a VMWare SVGA II video
adaptor (in my VMWare V4.5 it's a VMWare SVGA II anyway).
