[ale] a no way out situation

[Scott Castaline]

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On 10/31/2012 12:02 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 11:28 AM, Jim Philips 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.
> 
> Have you tried simply uninstalling the catalyst/fglrx packages?
> 
> My son just upgraded to 12.10 and since he uses a radeon 4650, he
> called me for advice when he this X version issue.
> 
> After I had him delete the proprietary drivers and reboot, it
> appears to have worked just fine.  The in-kernel radeon driver
> isn't your grandma's chevrolet, so to speak.
> 
> Phil
> 
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Unless she's the little old lady from Pasadena driving a Chevy Camero
Z-28.
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