Ati Radeon graphics card support

[David Kågedal]

GyroTech <gyrotech at freakinabox.com> writes:

> Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>> On do, 2006-03-23 at 21:29 +0100, pyrenaien at gmx.de wrote:
>> but the upcoming Ubuntu Dapper release includes out of the box
>> support for it.
>
> Yeah, except that it doesn't actually work...
> Try as hard as I might, it just destroys the display of my HP NX7010,
> completely grays it out and renders it unable to even switch to a
> console. Thankfully saved by pulling out the battery to kill the
> system.

I have a nx7010 too, and I have seen similar problems.

  https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15/+bug/35166

It works fins with an external monitor, and I can almost get it to
work with the internal LCD by adding a mode line to xorg.conf.

> Oddly enough, the fglrx driver worked quite happily (with a bit of
> work) back on Breezy, it was the lure of XGL that got me trying out
> Dapper so early but I have tried every one of the steps on the wiki,
> forums, and regular sites to get it working, each ending up in the
> same problem place.

Let me know if you find a solution.

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David Kågedal