On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:41 +0100, Seif Attar wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Rob Beard wrote:
> > Seif Attar wrote:
> > > I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried
> > upgrading to
Hey guys,
I share your frustration with the ATI cards and Linux. I converted my
friends machine over recently to running Ubuntu Jaunty believing that the
ATI drivers had improved and would be nearly on par with the nVidia ones.
And I learned the hard way that that was not the case... we tried to g
>
> Hi, two quick questions.
>
> Do you get the same degregation with any other distros you've tried? That
> is is it Ubuntu specific or distro wide?
>
> Secondly, have you tried Dell's own Ubuntu clone to see if that gives you
> the performance stability you're after?
>
> Dependant on your answe
rs, it may then be worth while raising a bug
Cheers
Ian
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[mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Chris Rowson
Sent: 30 April 2009 21:14
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin
>
> My Dell D600 Latitude laptop runs an "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250
> [Mobility FireGL 9000]" and I have always suffered with poor
> performance. Unfortunately I never get to the bottom of it. I really
> should try and get to a LUG meeting one day see if someone who knows
> what they are do
My Dell D600 Latitude laptop runs an "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250
[Mobility FireGL 9000]" and I have always suffered with poor
performance. Unfortunately I never get to the bottom of it. I really
should try and get to a LUG meeting one day see if someone who knows
what they are doing can
On 28 Apr 2009 at 11:08, Rob Beard wrote:
>
> Seif Attar wrote:
> > I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to
> > Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the my hardware will not
> > work on Jaunty (I had mixed feelings of disappointment and happiness
> > that
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Rob Beard wrote:
> Seif Attar wrote:
> > I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried
> upgrading to
> > Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the m
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Rob Beard wrote:
> Seif Attar wrote:
> > I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to
> > Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the my hardware will not
> > work on Jaunty (I had mixed feelings of disappointment and happiness
Seif Attar wrote:
> I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to
> Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the my hardware will not
> work on Jaunty (I had mixed feelings of disappointment and happiness
> that it actually warned me!), so the fglrx drivers won't wo
Hello,
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 15:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> 2009/4/26 Chris Rowson
>
> I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI
> Radeon X1200 series graphics chip in it.
>
> After having inst
>
> 2009/4/26 Chris Rowson
>
>> I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series
>> graphics chip in it.
>>
>> After having installed Jaunty, I was pleased to see that suspend and
>> resume worked (using the Open Source) drivers. Unfortunately however 3D
>> acceleration is to
2009/4/26 Chris Rowson
> I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series
> graphics chip in it.
>
> After having installed Jaunty, I was pleased to see that suspend and resume
> worked (using the Open Source) drivers. Unfortunately however 3D
> acceleration is totally miser
Chris Rowson wrote:
> [...]
> So, it looks like a choice of either stay with an older version of
> Ubuntu with proprietary driver support (but loose the ability to
> suspend/resume) or stick with Jaunty, but loose 3D acceleration features
> because of the pretty poor Open Source drivers.
>
> So
I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series
graphics chip in it.
After having installed Jaunty, I was pleased to see that suspend and resume
worked (using the Open Source) drivers. Unfortunately however 3D
acceleration is totally miserable. Google Earth runs like a prove
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