[ale] a no way out situation

[Jim Philips]

I can run with the open source driver. However, with this I get no menus in
Unity. And if I run in Gnome shell, I can't do anything at all. So, it
looks like KDE is the way to go. I just hope *that* works.


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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