[ale] a no way out situation

[Jim Philips]

Which ATI chipset is that?


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:23 PM, <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am running ati on my microserver just fine, recompile the drivers if you
> have to.
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com>
> Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:00:14
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<ale at ale.org>
> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] a no way out situation
>
> 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.
>
> Ron
>
>
> Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
> >atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
> >>
> >> Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >I'm finding that there are major problems in general with anything
> >> >that is ATI Radeon 4*. Fedora and Mint also have problems. But this
> >> >seems to be Gnome or Unity specific. I'm going to take a shot at
> >KDE.
> >> >
> >> >On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Michael Campbell
> >> ><michael.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> As a *user* (not sysadmin), I've had good luck on laptops and
> >> >> (virtualbox) VMs alike with Linux Mint/xfce.   It works well on a
> >> >> new-ish Lenovo IdeaPad, and worked well on a refurbished, 3 year
> >old
> >> >> Toshiba laptop also.  Wireless out of the box on both of them
> >which
> >> >is
> >> >> usually my downfall with these things. And xfce is whizbangy
> >enough
> >> >> without being overly so, for my uses, which are meager.
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