[ale] a no way out situation

[Phil Turmel]

On 10/31/2012 11:28 AM, Jim Philips 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.

Have you tried simply uninstalling the catalyst/fglrx packages?

My son just upgraded to 12.10 and since he uses a radeon 4650, he called
me for advice when he this X version issue.

After I had him delete the proprietary drivers and reboot, it appears to
have worked just fine.  The in-kernel radeon driver isn't your grandma's
chevrolet, so to speak.

Phil