Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-08-08 Thread aditya menon
Hello again, It turns out that the problem was not having the proper driver for my i3 processor's integrated graphics. I had the drivers for a previous processor versions and after this upgrade, I get the maximum resolution supported by my screen. On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:40:03 PM

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-08-08 Thread Guy Gold
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:13 PM, aditya menon adityameno...@gmail.com wrote: Hello again, It turns out that the problem was not having the proper driver for my i3 processor's integrated graphics. I had the drivers for a previous processor versions and after this upgrade, I get the maximum

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-15 Thread Ivo Ugrina
On 07/12/2012 03:04 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card simply won't shut down. Did you file a bug report for it? Nope :( I've solved it with disabling

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 09:17 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: On 07/12/2012 03:04 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card simply won't shut down. Did you file a bug report for it?

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 iul 12, 19:40:33, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/12 06:41 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 12 iul 12, 09:04:48, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-12 Thread Ivo Ugrina
I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card simply won't shut down. -- Ivo Ugrina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card simply won't shut down. Did you file a bug report for it? I've found the Debian package maintainers to be quite eager to work with people to

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 iul 12, 09:04:48, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card simply won't shut down. Did you file a bug report for it? I've found the Debian package

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/12 06:41 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 12 iul 12, 09:04:48, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card simply won't shut down. Did you file a bug report

Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread aditya menon
Hello everyone, I'm planning to get a new computer, and the one I really like is an All-in-one from Lenovo with *ATI HD 6450 *graphics. Does anyone have experience with that? I made a huge mistake last time by getting an nVidia Optimus card, it turned out that neither Linux nor many games work

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 17:30 +0530, aditya menon wrote: All-in-one from Lenovo with ATI I bought a mobo with an integrated ATI that as separated card has got proprietary driver support, but the integrated thingy only worked with the FLOSS driver, without 3D acceleration. The manual does call it

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread aditya menon
Hi Ralf, Sorry about the formatting, I'll keep it plain from now on =) Thank you for your detailed reply. The main reason I want Graphics card support on Linux is that I want a high resolution to work with. The integrated card offers atrocious support for resolution (only 800x600). So the

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 18:04 +0530, aditya menon wrote: So the summary would be that there are open source drivers available, they do work, but I may be violating licences - am I right? You aren't. Pardon for my broken English. Open source drivers don't violate any license. A combination of

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If a card isn't supported, than usually the open source vesa driver does work without 3D acceleration and only with a limited resolution, take a look at (extended) vesa standards. Oops, (extended) VGA standards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread aditya menon
Okay, thanks again... I'll research more again if the card is supported (and whether I can get extended VGA standards) :) On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: If a card isn't supported, than usually the open source vesa driver does work without 3D

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/12 09:07 AM, aditya menon wrote: Okay, thanks again... I'll research more again if the card is supported (and whether I can get extended VGA standards) :) AMD/ATI make proprietary drivers for their cards. However for many cards, the open source drivers work as well or better. The

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:30:05 +0530, aditya menon wrote: I'm planning to get a new computer, and the one I really like is an All-in-one from Lenovo with *ATI HD 6450 *graphics. Does anyone have experience with that? I made a huge mistake last time by getting an nVidia Optimus card, it turned

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread aditya menon
Thank you, *everyone*, for the very helpful and detailed replies! I am much more confident of that chip now. Looks like it's a Buy ;D On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:30:05 +0530, aditya menon wrote: I'm planning to get a new

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 iul 12, 18:04:24, aditya menon wrote: Thank you for your detailed reply. The main reason I want Graphics card support on Linux is that I want a high resolution to work with. The integrated card offers atrocious support for resolution (only 800x600). I seriously doubt that. Would

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 00:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 11 iul 12, 18:04:24, aditya menon wrote: Thank you for your detailed reply. The main reason I want Graphics card support on Linux is that I want a high resolution to work with. The integrated card offers atrocious support