> > 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 > > It looks like AMD are trying to concentrate on their most recent hardware:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r500_legacy&num=1 'Tis rather irritating that the laptop I have isn't actually that old though! (although it is a basic cheapy business model). Perhaps one day in the future the Open Source drivers will get better now that AMD has released more code and documentation on ATI kit to the community. I do know what you mean Tony about making a stand against a monopoly market but it sure is irritating sometimes! ;-) Don't get me wrong, I love Linux on the server, but sometimes the desktop drives me round the twist lol! Perhaps I should save up and invest at some point in an Ubuntu certified/reccomended laptop. Chris
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