Gutsy support ATI?

[shayke]

Hi

Do you know if Gutsy is going to support ATI cards (in my case x1270)?
From looking around I understand that Feisty did not support it from unknown reason, and previous Ubuntu versions did.

Does it matter if my machine has 64 bit processor? (I mean, if I use Gutsy-64 will it reduce the chances for supporting the ATI card of the machine, or make it more difficult?)

Thanks

[shayke]

anyone?

[swisscow]

There are drivers for the ATI cards, the radeon is the one that ships with Gutsy but you can use the restricted drive manager to add the fglrx driver. Also ATI are supposedly issuing an all singing all dancing driver for linux in the next few days which may make compiz problems obsolete.

[staynz]

I am using an ATI video card and it is working with the restricted drivers. x1400 card.

[2point0]

I am running an X1600 and it works with no problems at all.

As far as your question about Gutsy-64 I am on an AMD 3400 and I haven't encountered any problems.

[misfitpierce]

It supports ATI cards regardless. I'm on ATI X200 and no problems. I don't know exactly which cards are supported for actual drivers but all work on mesa I do believe. Gutsy 64 is also top notch.

[bromix]

For anyone with a more humble system, like my own Athlon XP 2800, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600. Worked great, checked the restricted driver in the RDM and it installed fglrx, worked great. I added xgl, and wham bam have a sweet, smooth and rather snappy compizfusion as well! :) Ubunutu just keeps getting better. Also, supported my TKIP WPA encrypted WLAN instantly. THANK YOU Ubuntu and the open source community!!!

[Sensenseppl]

I am running an X1600 and it works with no problems at all.

Just because I have the same card:
Does it run with Compiz Fusion enabled?
Did you have to do any tweaking, except installing the restricted driver?

[misfitpierce]

You install driver and type this in terminal...

sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

No more tweaking xgl just logout and login again and it auto starts on any session. You remove if no longer wanting it. Note XGL made my videos laggy when fullscreen and move mouse which it did not in feisty so be aware it may have effects. ATI releases new drivers this month which no longer require XGL session on top of normal session. So let us hope they come out glorious. :)

[bromix]

Just a little tip for Gutsy users who have XGL. Until the new driver comes out and we no long have to have XGL...I play WoW on my Ubuntu box, the performance was bad while running XGL. With the new XGL autostart integration, I couldn't log in without it. I found a solution. I created another user profile for when I don't want xgl running. Then all you do is create a file ~/.config/xserver-xgl/disable That's just a blank text file named "disable" It's a kill switch for XGL. If it's present, XGL won't load, and you have your performance back for video, gaming, etc.

[dmf86]

In my case, Radeon 9200, it won't work, only in VESA driver.

[Sensenseppl]

Thanks, now I finally can stop worrying! :)

[DavidGX]

You install driver and type this in terminal...

sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

No more tweaking xgl just logout and login again and it auto starts on any session. You remove if no longer wanting it. Note XGL made my videos laggy when fullscreen and move mouse which it did not in feisty so be aware it may have effects. ATI releases new drivers this month which no longer require XGL session on top of normal session. So let us hope they come out glorious. :)

Ok so first I get flash installed for me in 64bit firefox and now getting eyecandy working with an ATI card is incredibly easy...

..*sniff*...

..I love you Gutsy Gibbon :KS

[misfitpierce]

Dont we all love gutsy :) Glad to hear you got all your stuff working.. :)

[4leite]

I have x1250

gutsy had problems with lcd screen detection - found the easiest fix was to connect an external screen and switch to it at boot with fn+f4 then live cd -> install restricted drivers + xserver-xgl = gutsy prettiness.

hope the all singing all dancing driver is all it's cracked up to be!

[shayke]

Thanks!!