[ubuntu-florida] Introduction

[Catsceo]

I have used ATI cards on many Linux boxes and they have all been
stable.  It sounds to me that the card he has is defective or it could
be another problem altogether.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:43 AM, ElementC <wer4geeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome to the team.
> ATI cards were *supposed* to be becoming more and more stable after amd took
> over for ATI, but I have yet to see a improvement in their drivers.
>
> I've always had better luck with nvidia cards and that's about all I buy
> nowadays. Good luck with your ati card though.
>
> The wiki or the forums are a good place to start your research.
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> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Umer Farooq <umer.m.farooq at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Richard,
>> Welcome to Ubuntu!
>> One of the places I found most helpful when I was a new user to ubuntu
>> was www.ubuntuguide.org, and then eventually I started using
>> www.ubuntuforums.org considerably more, and ubuntuguide considerably
>> less. However, in case you didn't know about it, try it out, and have fun!
>> Umer Farooq
>>
>> Richard Colavito wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > My name is Richard and I am brand new to Linux. I have tried several
>> > versions with the last being Mandriva. I have found all those versions
>> > very hard for me to understand and use so I gave up. Then I found
>> > Ubuntu and decided to try again. It is a lot more user friendly but I
>> > still have a lot of trouble understanding what to do. I am tired of
>> > paying thru the nose for an operating system as the big W. I installed
>> > Ubuntu on two machines one with ATI video and one with NVidia. The ATI
>> > machine is not stable and restarts on its own when I am trying to work
>> > on it. The NVidia machine is nice and stable. Now I have to learn how
>> > to install other programs and get them to work.
>> >
>> >
>>
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