ATI drivers in live media

[Guest maja_ldm]

I'm having a problem trying to launch Linux from a live media in this system:

ASUS A7S8X-MX, AMD Sempron 2200+, Radeon 9250, 2GB RAM.

The problem is most probably the old Radeon card.

 

The machine's graphics card is listed as unsupported by the most recent proprietary drivers and I can find many ways to install the drivers from within an OS interface by googling, bu that's not what I need now.

 

I would like to bundle the right drivers in a live image.

To do so I read that some modifications have to be done to the Linux kernel.

 

Before proceeding I'd like to ask:

1) are the ATI open source drivers even supposed to work from a live image?

2) is there any method to add drivers to a live image of any given Linux distribution that is quicker then modifying the Linux kernel?

3) how can I check an existing kernel to determine if some drivers are already present so that I may know the problem is elsewhere?

 

 

Thanks

 

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