[ubuntu-uk] Graphics Card Problems

[Johnathon Tinsley]

----- "Craig" <craig at zygoid.co.uk> wrote:

> Last Christmas, one of Santa's elves made a mistake. Instead of buying
> a
> Linux-ready graphics card to give to Craig Horner for Christmas, he
> brought him an ATI Radeon X1550, which so far, has been extremely
> annoying.
>  I have managed to set it up so that it works as far as running
> Compiz
> using this tutorial [1]. It works for that, but whenever I try to run
> certain programs which I used to be able to run before the new
> graphics
> card, such as Unreal Tournament GOTY, Jazz Jack Rabbit 2, Google
> Earth
> etc, it just ends the current session and takes me back to the log in
> page.

Is it literally *snap*, back to the login screen every time you run a opengl-heavy program?

Is there a bug report about this on launchpad? (If you don't know, say and I'll go looking for one...)

Johnathon