I am new to ubuntu i have a toshiba satellite A215 laptop with a ati Radeon X1200 graphic card. When ubuntu 12.04 has finished installed, i check the detail menu in system settings the graphic option is displaying,driver known experience standard. I'm then assuming that the graphic card is not installed how can i install it if thats the case.
Ubuntu – My ati Radeon X1200 graphic card is not installed how do i install it
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You need to define your 2 screens in AMD soft.
Open ATI driver application
and define your 2 screens display without any limit.
and re-boot
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The wording of that dialog may be confusing you. You do have a video driver installed by default - an open source driver named 'radeon' (also sometimes referred to as the -ati driver.)
The other driver that's being offered is a proprietary closed-source driver called AMD Catalyst, aka "fglrx" which stands for "FireGL and Radeon for X". Like others have mentioned it only works for newer AMD cards, and unfortunately your X1200 (of the R6xx generation) is no longer supported by AMD with this driver. -fglrx is needed for getting the maximum performance and full feature support out of AMD graphics cards.
However, contrary to what others have said, the open source -ati driver is fine for ordinary computer use - which is presumably what you're after since you're using a somewhat older graphics card. It's quite stable, with reasonable performance good enough for basic gaming, desktop compositing and so on. Plus then you can have a warm fuzzy feeling that you're using open source rather than closed source. ;-)