Hussam Shebli wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I have a laptop Asus A6R the chipset is ATI Radeon Xpress 200M. I tried > everything to make it work good on UBUNTU 6.06, but I did not successed. > Please can you manage to make the next version to be flexible to work on > more laptops. > Thank you in advance
I have a HP dv5008EA notebook; the video adapter is the same. The ati driver in X.org 7.0.0 on Dapper works well, but with no DRI nor hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. To get those, I had to install the awful proprietary ATI binary driver. I succeeded in the end, but it wasn't easy. Right before the Dapper release, an update broke the binary driver: Bug #47371: [fglrx and Radeon 9200] Can't start openoffice or blender after update to dapper https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15/+bug/47371/+index The required steps are detailed here: [ATI proprietary driver] Ubuntu Dapper Installation Guide http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide (I just added a note to that page.) Two more things were needed in my case. First, I found that the 8.24.8 driver works reasonably well, while the 8.28.8 broke some on-screen widgets, so I stayed with that one. Second, and rather appalling: this notebook has 128MB of dedicated video memory, and that's what I configured in the BIOS at first. However, it turns out that the awful binary driver cannot use those, so in addition I had to enable UMA, the *shared* video memory, lowering the available RAM, and slowing the video adapter. To add insult to injury, DRI did not work if I set 32 or 64MB of UMA memory: it required a full 128MB of it (leaving only 384MB of RAM, and forcing me to upgrade to 1GB, but that's another story). But in the end I have hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, and can run the gorgeous Google Earth program (another proprietary blob, sigh). -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ The journey really is all you get. The journey isn't everything, it's the only thing. -- Phillip J. Eby, April 2006 -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
