[ale] a no way out situation

[Jim Philips]

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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