Dell Dimension E510 (aka Dimension 5150n), ATI Radeon X600, & Ubuntu

[Randy W. Sims]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:16 -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote:
>> I'd still prefer Ubuntu, if anyone can help with getting this ATI
>> X600 
>> card working. I guess I could also ask over on debian-user, and maybe 
>> look for a xorg list...
>>
>> Thanks for any help or suggestions.
>>
> 
> You could try a newer release like Dapper.  Does it work at all without
> the binary ATI drivers?

I'll give Dapper a try tonight. I get the same results whether using the 
OS drivers or the ATI proprietary drivers--X tries to start, giving just 
a black screen, then it dumps me back at command line.

> The problem is that hardware changes so fast, and it gets faster every
> year.  It might just be that your hardware is too new for the distro you
> tried to install.
> 
> Best bet is try to google for whether anyone else has had luck with that
> laptop...

Actually, I googled on this ATI card (and 'puter) before I purchased it. 
The only things I found seemed to indicate that I only needed to 
download the ATI driver, run it through Alien, and install it. I think 
that was specific to Debian though; would Ubuntu be different in some 
respect?

Thanks,

Randy.