On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From what I recall from list discussions a few months ago, the drivers
>> were rather experimental, but they were Open Source.  I thought the
>> "restricted driver manager" in Ubuntu was for binary-only drivers.
>
>  Depends on the driver.  Out of the box Ubuntu will use the open
> source ati or radeon driver.  If you enable the ATI driver in the
> restricted driver manager, it will install and use the fglrx module.

  Okay... but I don't think that helps Bruce any.  Again, his problem
was that the drivers his card were experimental.  Not "restricted",
but experimental.  I think the driver name might have been "radeonhd".
 It might have been so new that you had to grab sources from a CVS
repository or some such thing.

-- Ben
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