<div>On 10/9/05, Christian Convey <<a href="mailto:christian.convey@gmail.com">christian.convey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi guys, I'm considering buying a notebook with an ATI 200M graphics chip. I want to run 32-bit Breezy on it, which currently has a kernel version of 2.6.12-9-xxx. Should I expect X to do OK on this notebook? I have several reasons to be concerned:</blockquote><div> Define OK. You will have to hack your xorg.conf file by hand to get it to boot at all. With the ATI driver you need to etra line Option "NoAccel" The ATI drivers "work". They certainly work better than the ATI driver which has (in my experience) terrible support for this chip. I'm running 64-bi Breezy and I had to turn off the RAM on the graphics card to make it boot using ATI's drivers due to a well documented bug with ATI's driver. Hopefully they will get it right next time. So, right now my 200M with 128MB of onboard ram is using 32 mb of my system memory so I can use it. But 3D "works" now..albeit slowly. This probably ain't what you wanted to hear. But, Linux support of new hardware always improves. So, I'm thinking that support in Drake will be fantastic for this hardware. --andy </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(A) ATI's web page for their proprietary driver only mentions support through 2.6.11 kernels: <a href="https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9448/1m/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.14.13-inst.html#176806">https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9448/1m/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.14.13-inst.html#176806 </a> (B) I've seen some postings on this newsgroup of people having problems with this chip, but I don't know if these people are the exception or the rule. Also, if I do buy the notebook, am I better off using the 'linux-restricted-modules' package, or the driver available from ATI's website? Thanks, Christian -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>