Radeon Driver help

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:28 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Steve Grace wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:08 PM, don fisher<hdf3 at comcast.net>  wrote:
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>>> I am currently running version Ubuntu 9.10 with all updates applied.
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>>> The status [of the driver fix] is "Resolved Fixed", with a modification
>>> date of 2009-11-25.
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>> Did you notice that the driver problem was resolved AFTER your version of
>> Ubuntu was released? Generally, the updates are only for security issues. I
>> wouldn't expect to get the driver fix automatically.
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>> Have you considered moving to a newer version of Ubuntu?
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> I am running version 2.6.31-22-generic kernel, which is the latest I see
> under synaptic. Would a later distribution use a different kernel? I had
> assumed that the latest kernels were applied during an update. Please advise
> if I am incorrect. Version 2.3.37 is the latest at kernel.org.
>

On Maverick the latest Radeon driver is:

xserver-xorg-video-radeon   1:6.13.1-1ubuntu5
X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver

>From Synaptic:

"This package provides the 'radeon' driver for the AMD/ATI Radeon, FireGL,
FireMV, FirePro and FireStream series.
Note that this is not the same as the ATI-provided, binary-only, 'fglrx'
driver, which provides additional 3D functionality for some newer Radeon
cards, but is not supported.
More information about X.Org can be found at:
<URL:http://www.X.org>
This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-ati driver module."



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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
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