ATI Radeon 7000

[Felix Miata]

On 2012-12-05 19:47 (GMT) Phil Dobbin composed:

> I'm contemplating installing 64 bit Ubuntu on a Poweredge 1850.

> I booted from the 12.04 Live CD & it ran pretty well. The only odd thing
> was that alt-ctrl-arrow-keys did not function for the workspace switcher
> which is a pretty major fault.

> I moved on to the 12.10 Live CD & Compiz had serious issues: apps
> wouldn't launch, Compiz repeatedly crashed & it was basically unusable.

> Upon subsequently Googling the problem, I saw that the Radeon drivers
> for 12.10 weren't available as yet but there was a kind of muddled
> consensus that 12.04 was OK.

> Whilst I realise that the 1850 is a server, I need a GUI for certain
> parts of this particular project so does anybody have any experience of
> running a Radeon 7000 card on the stock Unity release of 12.04 or is
> using a spin like LXDE or similar my best option?

According to the thread ending with 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-10/msg00393.html it's my suspicion 
that the problem isn't Radeon generally but specifically to the 7000, which 
IIRC is mostly a tweaked R128, used in combination with that generation of 
Xorg. If that 7000 is in an AGP or PCI slot, can't you put something newer in 
it? I have no problems with an only slightly newer 7500 that last I checked 
was plentiful for cheap on eBay. The 7500 was a popular option in Dell models 
sold to businesses.

Why not try a Live Debian, Fedora and/or openSUSE of similar age to 12.10 and 
12.04 to see if the problems are missing?
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