Ubuntu with ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4200

[ExEdzy]

Can someone please tell how can i make video card for laptop Compaq CQ61 with ati radeon mobility HD 4200 to work with Ubuntu..

laptop: Compaq Parsion CQ61-310 en
video card: ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4200

 

[Bolbi]

First off, are you running Ubuntu in a virtual machine or just dual-booting it with Windows 7?

 

[ExEdzy]

i would love to run it dual boot with win7, but i split the HDD, and installed as full (not install in windows as app)

 

[Bolbi]

Dual booting means that you get a choice at startup to run either operating system; it sounds like that's what you have going on. It's easy to get the official AMD drivers for the Radeon HD4200 from this point:
■Boot into Ubuntu.
■From the Ubuntu desktop, click on System>Administration>Additional Drivers.
■Once it finishes searching, Ubuntu will present you with a list of proprietary drivers. Click on the ATI driver and then click "Activate".
■Reboot the computer and go back into Ubuntu.
■At this point, you should be running the official AMD drivers!