[TriLUG] Feisty was a b*tch of an upgrade

[Sean Myers]

I can't speak for the free drivers, but ATI's fglrx drivers don't 
officially have support the 2.6.20 kernel until 8.36:

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.36.5.html#184277

The driver version in feisty's repos is 8.34:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/misc/xorg-driver-fglrx

Here's a wiki page that'll get you set up with the latest fglrx drivers 
(yay, we get to build kernel modules!):

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

I'm using an X1950GT now, so the ATI drivers are my only option at this 
time. While I'm spamming links, here's wiki page of the free Radeon driver:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

--
Sean Myers
System Administrator
American Research Institute
(919) 228-4961


Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> I started out on 6.06, upgraded to Edgy and now to Feisty.  Edgy was a 
> pretty painless upgrade with only the swap issue being kinda irritating 
> and requiring effort/thought/google.
> Feisty disabled X windows for starters...  For some reason I couldn't 
> get either the free or proprietary ATI drivers to install after this 
> (this may be partly me as for some reason I occasionally block on 
> something even if I've done it 100 times)...   I ended up having to copy 
> my stuff off to another drive and do a re-install from scratch, then the 
> video STILL didn't work until I manually installed the proprietary 
> drivers and used an old X configuration (I'd tried that before the clean 
> install too).
> 
> All in all FUN to do right before a conference.  I never did get my or 
> any other projector working again!  So I did LinuxFest on OS X....Ian 
> would be proud.
> 
> -Andy