ATI [Was: Re: Sat. F2F Prize]

[Jim Popovitch]

On Feb 8, 2008 8:25 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 07:50 -0800, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Sadly I will miss this F2F too (out on the west coast through Sun
> > evening).  My most interesting Ubuntu experience has been trying to
> > get from fiesty to gutsy with ATI drivers and still be able to
> > hiberate. :-)  Anyone know if Heron resolves this problem?
>
> I wouldn't hold my breath on it.  The newest ATI driver, while it
> enables fglrx to work with AIGLX, is---like all of their silly
> proprietary blogs---nothing to write home about.  It's flakey, and
> causes (at least on my system) screen corruption and other strange
> issues.  I had not tested hibernation, but I am not sure that I would be
> willing to, either.

Roger that.  Thanks for the info Mike.

-Jim P.