Radeon Driver help

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:17 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Steve Grace wrote:
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>> On 01/16/2011 01:28 PM, don fisher 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
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>> I use Ubuntu 10.04 and my kernel is 2.6.32-27-generic.
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> Thanks. I will try ti upgrade my system. At present I cannot find an ftp
> site with the 10.04 and 10.10 iso images. All I can find are bittorent site
> which will not work through my provider. Fedora was much easier!
>

Not ftp, but you can use zsync instead of torrent:

sudo apt-get install zsync

or download the .iso

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lucid/daily-live/current/

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/release/


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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64