[ale] a no way out situation

Thu Nov 1 13:45:09 EDT 2012

I wasn't the original poster of the message.  But, I have a Diamond Radeon HD 4670 that I'm not using and an AMD Radeon HD 6770 that I am currently using with Ubuntu 11.04.  I don't know the chipset.

Ron

Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

>Which ATI chipset is that?
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:23 PM, <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am running ati on my microserver just fine, recompile the drivers
>if you
>> have to.
>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com>
>> Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org
>> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:00:14
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<ale at ale.org>
>> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> Subject: Re: [ale] a no way out situation
>>
>> Sorry to hear that.  So what would I have to do to keep my ati card
>> working if I upgrade to ubuntu 12.10?  I would ditch unity like a hot
>> potato.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Thanks for the offer of help. I wish it were that simple. Neither
>Unity
>> >nor
>> >Gnome in Ubuntu 12.10 will work with any of the current drivers I
>have
>> >tried from AMD, whether beta or legacy. There is the issue of the
>> >chipset
>> >being legacy, plus ATI being incompatible with the latest version of
>X
>> >running in Ubuntu 12.10.
>> >
>> >
>> >On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
>> >atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I will freely admit to not following all this thread.  However, I
>> >just
>> >> wanted to throw out there that I've been previously using an AMD /
>> >ATI
>> >> Radeon 4670 and subsequently a 6770 card with my Ubuntu 11.04
>> >installation.
>> >>  I do remember some significant pain trying to get it to start up
>> >> originally, including X not starting correctly and I think I had a
>> >800 x
>> >> 600 display.  It's almost impossible to even manipulate the
>computer
>> >with
>> >> 800 x 600.  I finally was able to download the ATI drivers from
>the
>> >ATI
>> >> website and get them installed with some help from people here. 
>It's
>> >now
>> >> running well with two 1920 x 1080 monitors.  I suspect further
>> >problems
>> >> when I upgrade video cards later, but I don't plan on doing that
>for
>> >a
>> >> while.  If you need it, I could try to find the link to download
>the
>> >ATI
>> >> drivers, if I can find it.
>> >>
>> >> Sincerely,
>> >>
>> >> Ron
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I'm finding that there are major problems in general with
>anything
>> >> >that is ATI Radeon 4*. Fedora and Mint also have problems. But
>this
>> >> >seems to be Gnome or Unity specific. I'm going to take a shot at
>> >KDE.
>> >> >
>> >> >On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Michael Campbell
>> >> ><michael.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> As a *user* (not sysadmin), I've had good luck on laptops and
>> >> >> (virtualbox) VMs alike with Linux Mint/xfce.   It works well on
>a
>> >> >> new-ish Lenovo IdeaPad, and worked well on a refurbished, 3
>year
>> >old
>> >> >> Toshiba laptop also.  Wireless out of the box on both of them
>> >which
>> >> >is
>> >> >> usually my downfall with these things. And xfce is whizbangy
>> >enough
>> >> >> without being overly so, for my uses, which are meager.
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>to
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Sent from my Android Acer A500 tablet with bluetooth keyboard and K-9 Mail.
Please excuse my potential brevity.

(To whom it may concern.  My email address has changed.  Replying to former
messages prior to 03/31/12 with my personal address will go to the wrong
address.  Please send all personal correspondence to the new address.)

(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very quickly.)

Ron Frazier
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linuxdude AT techstarship.com