[xubuntu-users] GDU

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 16:34:12 -0600
Eric Christopherson <echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you care to elaborate on your claim about it only working on a
> few versions of X, and give us a link to news about the proprietary
> ATI drivers being discontinued? I haven't found anything like that.

For example, assumed you've got an integrated Radeon X 1250.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
then you need to install ATI Catalyst 9.3.
Take a look at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst#Xorg_repositories
Catalyst < 12.10 needs X < 1.13

For old NVIDIA cards there aren't such issues with the proprietary
driver.

FWIW I own old NVIDIA and ATI cards, I speak from experience.