<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Which ATI chipset is that?</font><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:23 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com" target="_blank">simontek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am running ati on my microserver just fine, recompile the drivers if you have to.<br>
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From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>><br>
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:00:14<br>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [ale] a no way out situation<br>
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Sorry to hear that. So what would I have to do to keep my ati card working if I upgrade to ubuntu 12.10? I would ditch unity like a hot potato.<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
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Jim Philips <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
>Thanks for the offer of help. I wish it were that simple. Neither Unity<br>
>nor<br>
>Gnome in Ubuntu 12.10 will work with any of the current drivers I have<br>
>tried from AMD, whether beta or legacy. There is the issue of the<br>
>chipset<br>
>being legacy, plus ATI being incompatible with the latest version of X<br>
>running in Ubuntu 12.10.<br>
><br>
><br>
>On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <<br>
><a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I will freely admit to not following all this thread. However, I<br>
>just<br>
>> wanted to throw out there that I've been previously using an AMD /<br>
>ATI<br>
>> Radeon 4670 and subsequently a 6770 card with my Ubuntu 11.04<br>
>installation.<br>
>> I do remember some significant pain trying to get it to start up<br>
>> originally, including X not starting correctly and I think I had a<br>
>800 x<br>
>> 600 display. It's almost impossible to even manipulate the computer<br>
>with<br>
>> 800 x 600. I finally was able to download the ATI drivers from the<br>
>ATI<br>
>> website and get them installed with some help from people here. It's<br>
>now<br>
>> running well with two 1920 x 1080 monitors. I suspect further<br>
>problems<br>
>> when I upgrade video cards later, but I don't plan on doing that for<br>
>a<br>
>> while. If you need it, I could try to find the link to download the<br>
>ATI<br>
>> drivers, if I can find it.<br>
>><br>
>> Sincerely,<br>
>><br>
>> Ron<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Jim Philips <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> >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<br>
>KDE.<br>
>> ><br>
>> >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<br>
>old<br>
>> >> Toshiba laptop also. Wireless out of the box on both of them<br>
>which<br>
>> >is<br>
>> >> usually my downfall with these things. And xfce is whizbangy<br>
>enough<br>
>> >> without being overly so, for my uses, which are meager.<br>
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