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

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Yeah I did get it working.  I don't know what went wrong that I couldn't 
get them installed w/o clean install.  I didn't do anything different.  
I suspect something stuck a bad SO somewhere.  I was aware of everything 
you mention below.  I just wanted to warn people "Feisty is not the same 
upgrade as Edgy if you have ATI"...  I had previously/continue using the 
proprietary drivers.  In part because the Feisty installer no longer 
seems to recognize my card and does not put a compatible w/free drivers 
device string in the Xorg.conf. 

BTW anyone get the ATI Catalyst control center to meaningfully work?  I 
can change resolutions but nothing else seems to have a meaningful 
effect (esp the dual monitor part).

-Andy

Sean Myers wrote:
> 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