[ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

[Seif Attar]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
>         Seif Attar wrote:
>         > I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried
>         upgrading to
>         > Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the my
>         hardware will not
>         > work on Jaunty (I had mixed feelings of disappointment and
>         happiness
>         > that it actually warned me!), so the fglrx drivers won't
>         work, but how
>         > will this affect me? i don't care much about 3d stuff, so I
>         am willing
>         > to give that up, but will my resolution be correct? and what
>         about XV
>         > video? has anyone here had any experience with this?
>         >
>         > I was shocked that ATI dropped support for this card, as
>         Imust don't
>         > consider my laptop old (well yeah, I bought it 3 years ago,
>         but i still
>         > think of it as new and up to spec :)
>         >
>         > Peace,
>         > Seif
>         >
>         >
>         
>         
>          From what I understand, it is supported at least for 2D
>         graphics so
>         you'll still be able to use the machine and it should display
>         at the
>         correct resolution but you won't be able to use anything like
>         Compiz so
>         you won't get fancy effects or wobbly windows.
>         
>         I do agree that it's not very good of ATI/AMD to leave their
>         customers
>         in the lurch like this.  I have a couple of ATI graphics cards
>         that
>         luckily are still supported (just) by the fglrx drivers or by
>         the open
>         source drivers but I would certainly give it some more thought
>         when
>         choosing another card.  I know NVidia aren't that great for
>         support
>         (closed source drivers etc) but on the other hand they still
>         do have
>         drivers which support back to the TNT2 and Geforce 256 cards
>         (I have a
>         couple of these kicking around still, and even an old Voodoo
>         4).
>         
>         I personally think that AMD should at least support their
>         older cards
>         (I'm not expecting all the latest features, just basic
>         support) until
>         the community can get the open source drivers up to scratch,
>         although I
>         guess their argument is that they have released the
>         documentation to the
>         community to assist in writing the drivers (which NVidia on
>         the other
>         hand haven't done).
>         
>         Rob
>         
> 
> I'm using an ATI Radeon X1200 which is supported under the Open Source
> driver. 3D acceleration exists but is a bit rubbish. That said
> however, basic compiz effects do work reasonably well. 
> 
> I believe your card (like mine) is no longer supported by the
> proprietary fglrx drivers. I'm not sure if it is supported by the Open
> Source ATI drivers, but you pop in a copy of Jaunty and find out ;-)
> 
> Chris


hehe, I had thought about that, and used the usb creator to create a
jaunty usb disk, only to relaize that the laptop doesn't boot from usb!
will burn a CD once I'm home and post the results. My main concern is Xv
and skype (skype needs XV for the webcam).

Seif
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