[ale] a no way out situation

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

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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Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9 Mail.
Please excuse my potential brevity.

(To whom it may concern.  My email address has changed.  Replying to former
messages prior to 03/31/12 with my personal address will go to the wrong
address.  Please send all personal correspondence to the new address.)

(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very quickly.)

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