2009/4/26 Chris Rowson <christopherrow...@gmail.com> > 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 proverbial pile > of pants.... > > Doing a bit of research, I notice that ATI has depreciated support for > X1200 series cards so that there are no proprietary drivers available for > Jaunty (although suspend/resume never worked with the proprietary drivers > anyway!). > > 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. > > Sometimes I wonder why I bother! > > Chris > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > Chris,
I'm in the process of re-installing intrepid now, as the machine I run my media centre (boxee) on has an old ATI Radeon 9600 card in it. This card *should* be fine with both 2D and 3D but it isn't, so I'm downgrading until I get my hands on a newer (probably nvidia) card - although I appreciate that isn't an option for you laptop! >From what I can see, the problem is an incompatability in Xorg 1.6 (in Jaunty) and the Proprietory fglrx drivers that stop me from being able to use the proprietory drivers. Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk
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