[ubuntu-uk] 9.10 with ATI Radeon

[David Jones]

Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I've got a PC with an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 video - I know I've seen
> comments in the past ATI isn't very well supported. Looking at the
> forums and the hardware pages, though it seems some people use them OK,
> and I've read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
> 
> But when I try the LiveCD (9.10) all I get is a flashing cursor on a
> black screen, so I can't try enabling the restricted drivers or checking
> the compatibility anyway. Is there a way round this?
> 
> And is this an "on board" chip, rather than an actual card which can be
> changed? (I get that impression from looking at it, and from reading
> stuff on line.)
> 
> TIA 
> Dianne
> 
> 
> 
> 
Dianne, My wifes laptop is a Toshiba with builtin ATI Radeon Xpress 200 
graphics.

When I installed Ubuntu in the past (8.04, 8.10 and 9.04) I found with 
the first two that I could use the Alternate install cd but with 9.04, 
even that wouldn't work.  The livecd wouldn't work at all.

I got round the problem by attaching a second monitor to the laptop 
during installation with the alternate cd and found that it worked fine 
doing that, everything that you'd expect on the laptop screen came up on 
the external monitor.

Once it was installed and restarted, there were no problems, it just 
seemed to be the installer that was having problems.

I've not tried upgrading to 9.10 yet, that was something I was waiting 
for a while to see how other people got on with it.

Hope that helps anyway.

Regards
Dave