Comment 86 for bug 201330

yea, ubuntu's decision to blacklist radeon mobilities and their decision to
not support fake raid 5, has really been causing me to doubt my choice of
ubuntu. I might try something else
.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:13 AM, David Chamberlain <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> I also have the Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] video card
> as a part of my Dell Inspiron 5100 which has always worked so long as
> xorg.conf was setup correctly. If my understanding is correct, Ubuntu
> is disabling compiz on ATI cards using the OPEN SOURCE driver???? The
> OPEN SOURCE driver which by the way WORKS, and the PROPRIETARY one
> doesn't (thanks to some really asinine back room OEM deals ATI made
> awhile back) and Ubuntu disables **working** video cards using an **open
> source** driver??
>
> Okay what just happened here, I'm feeling a bit dizzy because this is
> definitely **NOT** the way I thought things worked...
>
> --bornagainpenguin
>
> PS: If my understanding is incorrect, I apologize now, but really what
> am I supposed to think when it appears my WORKING video card is being
> blacklisted because.... wait for it..... it's using an open source
> driver!
>
> ** Attachment added: "lspci -vn.txt"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13896457/lspci%20-vn.txt
>
> --
> [regression] need to whitelist multiple ATI cards, or remove blacklisting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201330
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