Ubuntu
fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #314600
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 314600

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antoniodefelice (adefelic-gmail) wrote : Re: fglrx versions newer than 8.543 cause system hang and panic

@fermulator.

Indeed, I thought something could be wrong with the latest patch of Ubuntu/8.10 xserver.

My card is an X1300.

Yes, indeed we are screwed.

For several reasons:

1) Staying with fglrx (even if it worked), woudl mean renounce to new releases of Ubuntu/Linux

2) Choosing the ati driver I noticed about 1/2 frames per second with respect to fglrx. It is not bad but the card works half it could.

3) I tried to install Ubuntu/8.04: the problem is still there with 9.3. I tried Ubuntu/8.10 with 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 8.12, but none of this seems to work. For a moment 9.1 gave me some hope, for a moment only.

4) Having found no way to make fglrx working (of course I haven't tried all the permutations/fixes--just a simple ati driver install), I see no other way that to stick to the ati driver.

5) The ati driver behaves not badly, but worse than fglrx. A possibility is that the legacy drivers will go open source--I really hope so. If not, we need to wait some saint hacker who keeps opening the way to a perfect opensource ati driver.