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update-manager package

  1. Jaunty (9.04)
  2. Bug #284408
  3. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 284408

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Tomasz Czapiewski (xeros) wrote : Re: r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx

I was scared by the Ubuntu 8.10 Release Notes instruction:
"ATI "fglrx" video support

The ATI video driver in 8.10 drops support for video cards with r300 based chips (the Radeon 9500 - X600 Series of cards). If you have such a card, please use "Hardware Drivers" at System/Administration to disable it before the upgrade. Please see bug 284408 for more information "

Is it confirmed that AMD has dropped support for R300 chips or is it just a bug in the new Xorg and kernel adaptation in the driver?
I use AMD FGLRX 8.10 driver on Hardy downloaded from AMD website and it works without problems on my (desktop) Radeon 9600 (RV350).
I was managing to upgrade to Intrepid in few days.