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From: William Witt 
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dave wrote:
> Dual boot install with XP went perfectly today.
> 
> I have a 8500LE Ati card with s-video out that I 
> have been using with XP to watch videos on the TV.
> 
> How do I see what ati driver is currently installed
> on the ubuntu system? I'm thinking I will have to
> upgrade it to get the s-video to work. After searching
> for solutions, I realize it may be a bit of a 
> challenge for me so any help with this would be
> much appreciated.
> This is my first experience with linux. 
> Thank you
> Dave
>  

The default driver is the open source driver.  If you want full use of 
the card's hardware (3d acceleration, etc) you have to install the 
proprietary driver.  Google searching for "ubuntu dapper ati driver" 
turned up
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide

Getting the TV out to work may be harder (I use NVidia so can't help too 
much there) getting dual head set ups to work properly seems to be more 
of a struggle.  It took manually editing my xorg.conf to get my setup 
working.  It seems like ATI has some configuration software that might 
help though.

Will
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