Hardy, KDE4 and fglrx

Girard Henri girardhenri at free.fr
Wed Feb 20 13:59:33 UTC 2008


with gutsy you might use "envy"
but not on hardy yet
that why i am waiting it
Le mercredi 20 février 2008 à 14:25 +0100, Nils a écrit :
> Hi all
> 
> I have a hp compaq 8510p and it has an ATI Radeon 2600, therefore I
> have to use fglrx. With Gutsy it works more or less (xscreensaver
> crashed some times, suspend does not work, compiz did not work at all)
> 
> I also installed Kubuntu Hardy to try out KDE4. When I try to logout
> or reboot the screen gets blank and since I cannot see anything, I
> assume that it crashed. (It stays black when pressing ctrl-alt-fn)
> Because ATI is known for crappy drivers I guess that they are the
> reasons and just wanted to ask if anybody has the same problems and if
> there are known workarounds for it. I also don't mind if DRI or compiz
> is not working, if I can get basic functionality to work correct.
> 
> I installed the latest fglrx drivers from ati using --buildpkg=Ubuntu/Hardy.
> 
> Nils
> 





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