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[Nils Kassube]

Felix Miata wrote:
> Bill Vance composed on 2014-11-08 21:44 (UTC-0800):
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)
> 
> That's one of the less popular and less well supported video devices.

That's a very diplomatic description. :)

> If you hope to upgrade to something newer than 12.04 at some point I
> suggest you adopt one of three basic plans:
> 
> 1-Install a well supported video card from AMD (ATI, Radeon) or NVidia
> so that you don't need to depend on the Openchrome driver, or
> 
> 2-Switch to a newer computer, preferably one with well supported video
> from AMD, Intel or NVidia, or
> 
> 3-Test the latest release as it is being developed, as far in advance
> of release as you possibly can. The easiest method for most people is
> using pre-release live media, testing to see how it works, and
> ensuring whatever doesn't work satisfactorily gets reported on
> bugs.launchpad.net in time to have a chance of getting fixed before
> final release.

IMHO the first option is the one with the least effort. Of course it 
would be great to have someone with that video hardware test new 
releases during development. But be aware, that it may take quite some 
time until a bug gets fixed, especially if it is an upstream problem.

> Alternatively to live media booting are such options
> as installing in a VM,

I think that wouldn't work because the video hardware of the VM is 
emulated. You would have to run on the real hardware to check for bugs 
in the video driver.


Nils