[ale] a no way out situation

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

I will freely admit to not following all this thread.  However, I just wanted to throw out there that I've been previously using an AMD / ATI Radeon 4670 and subsequently a 6770 card with my Ubuntu 11.04 installation.  I do remember some significant pain trying to get it to start up originally, including X not starting correctly and I think I had a 800 x 600 display.  It's almost impossible to even manipulate the computer with 800 x 600.  I finally was able to download the ATI drivers from the ATI website and get them installed with some help from people here.  It's now running well with two 1920 x 1080 monitors.  I suspect further problems when I upgrade video cards later, but I don't plan on doing that for a while.  If you need it, I could try to find the link to download the ATI drivers, if I can find it.

Sincerely,

Ron


Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm finding that there are major problems in general with anything
>that is ATI Radeon 4*. Fedora and Mint also have problems. But this
>seems to be Gnome or Unity specific. I'm going to take a shot at KDE.
>
>On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Michael Campbell
><michael.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a *user* (not sysadmin), I've had good luck on laptops and
>> (virtualbox) VMs alike with Linux Mint/xfce.   It works well on a
>> new-ish Lenovo IdeaPad, and worked well on a refurbished, 3 year old
>> Toshiba laptop also.  Wireless out of the box on both of them which
>is
>> usually my downfall with these things. And xfce is whizbangy enough
>> without being overly so, for my uses, which are meager.
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