<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks for the offer of help. I wish it were that simple. Neither Unity nor Gnome in Ubuntu 12.10 will work with any of the current drivers I have tried from AMD, whether beta or legacy. There is the issue of the chipset being legacy, plus ATI being incompatible with the latest version of X running in Ubuntu 12.10.<br>
</font><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I will freely admit to not following all this thread. However, I just wanted to throw out there that I've been previously using an AMD / ATI Radeon 4670 and subsequently a 6770 card with my Ubuntu 11.04 installation. I do remember some significant pain trying to get it to start up originally, including X not starting correctly and I think I had a 800 x 600 display. It's almost impossible to even manipulate the computer with 800 x 600. I finally was able to download the ATI drivers from the ATI website and get them installed with some help from people here. It's now running well with two 1920 x 1080 monitors. I suspect further problems when I upgrade video cards later, but I don't plan on doing that for a while. If you need it, I could try to find the link to download the ATI drivers, if I can find it.<br>
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Ron<br>
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Jim Philips <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>I'm finding that there are major problems in general with anything<br>
>that is ATI Radeon 4*. Fedora and Mint also have problems. But this<br>
>seems to be Gnome or Unity specific. I'm going to take a shot at KDE.<br>
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>On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Michael Campbell<br>
><<a href="mailto:michael.campbell@gmail.com">michael.campbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> As a *user* (not sysadmin), I've had good luck on laptops and<br>
>> (virtualbox) VMs alike with Linux Mint/xfce. It works well on a<br>
>> new-ish Lenovo IdeaPad, and worked well on a refurbished, 3 year old<br>
>> Toshiba laptop also. Wireless out of the box on both of them which<br>
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>> usually my downfall with these things. And xfce is whizbangy enough<br>
>> without being overly so, for my uses, which are meager.<br>
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