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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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<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2009/4/26 Chris Rowson <span dir=3D"ltr"=
>&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:christopherrowson at gmail.com">christopherrowson at gmail=
.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-le=
ft: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: =
1ex;">

I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series grap=
hics chip in it. <br><br>After having installed Jaunty, I was pleased to se=
e that suspend and resume worked (using the Open Source) drivers. Unfortuna=
tely however 3D acceleration is totally miserable. Google Earth runs like a=
 proverbial pile of pants....<br>


<br>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 J=
aunty (although suspend/resume never worked with the proprietary drivers an=
yway!).<br>


<br>So, it looks like a choice of either stay with an older version of Ubun=
tu with proprietary driver support (but loose the ability to suspend/resume=
) or stick with Jaunty, but loose 3D acceleration features because of the p=
retty poor Open Source drivers.<br>


<br>Sometimes I wonder why I bother!<br><font color=3D"#888888"><br>Chris<b=
r>
</font><br>--<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com</a=
><br>
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blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br>
<a href=3D"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target=3D"_blank">https://wiki.=
ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>Chris,<br><br>I&#39;m in the process of re-insta=
lling 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&#39;t, so I&#39;m downgrading until I get my hands on a newe=
r (probably nvidia) card - although I appreciate that isn&#39;t an option f=
or you laptop!<br>

<br>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 u=
se the proprietory drivers.<br clear=3D"all">Steve Garton<br><a href=3D"htt=
p://sheepeatingtaz.co.uk">sheepeatingtaz.co.uk</a><br>


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