[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 314600] Re: fglrx versions newer than 8.543 cause system hang and panic

2009-06-13 Thread Georges Jamieson
Mathais, I do not mean in any way to disparage anyone's efforts in writing drivers for graphics cards. My comment was simply an attempt to summarize the situation with respect to getting a graphics card to work under X based on what I read in the bug reports. I upgraded from an ATI 9600 to an ATI

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 314600] Re: fglrx versions newer than 8.543 cause system hang and panic

2009-06-04 Thread Georges Jamieson
So if I understand correctly, many ATI chipsets will no longer be supported by the fglrx driver under Ununtu and some other distributions of Linux. No atempt will be made by AMD to maintain support for even relatively recent chipsets and using the fglrx driver is really just gambling. This means Ub