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Yes! I finally made it! I've got direct rendering to work: Celestia now runs smoothly and I'm happy :mrgreen: The key was building and installing the fglrx kernel module. For anybody using the same graphics card (or, possibly, a similar model) here's a quick how-to. You'll need to do most of this s...

Thanks for your reply. I've installed ATI's proprietary Linux driver, but I still haven't found a way to enable "direct rendering", so OpenGL performance is very poor. I've been following various non card-specific instructions found on the web, but no luck so far. If I find the solution, I will repo...

Hello everybody, I'm trying to find out which driver I should install on my new laptop in order to get the best results in Celestia. I'm running Linux (Kubuntu) and the onboard graphics card is an ATI Radeon Xpress 1100. Unfortunately, ATI's web site is not very helpful, as this card is not listed i...