BT4 HD Install - ATI Working ?

[Eatme]

If I do a hard drive install on my laptop, instead of vmware, would I be able to use my graphics card ? ATI Radeon 4200 HD Mobility

[cseven]

I would say yes:

ATI Catalyst

This is where that came from Graphics Drivers & Software

[Eatme]

I would say yes:

ATI Catalyst

This is where that came from Graphics Drivers & Software

but im saying, will it work out the box, oh let me guess I have to install that driver...thanks

im just wondering will I run into any errors like I did in vmware.

[cseven]

I doubt it will work out of the box because Nvidia doesn't but just download the file from that link and then once you boot backtrack run ./ati-driver-installer-10-9-x86.x86_64.run and you should be golden

[Eatme]

ok, well I booted the liveCD to "Test" and did the above, but after it installs I try to run aticonfig, and it says either my card is not compatible or something else I can't remember.

[cseven]

Are you installing while running while in X (startx) or are you doing it all from the command line when Backtrack first boots?

[Eatme]

Are you installing while running while in X (startx) or are you doing it all from the command line when Backtrack first boots?

yes I'm trying to install while in startx, am I not supposed to ?

[cseven]

As I haven't done much with ATI drivers, Nvidia drivers need to be installed outside of X so that it can then configure drivers correctly. I am only assuming the same would apply for ATI.

[Eatme]

thanks ! this worked.....

Alright, now are you familiar to get my card to work with aircrack-ng to make it run faster like cuda ?

when I do pyrit list_cores it only lists my cpu's

[r4d1x]

You need stream, but IIRC the mobility chipsets aren't supported.