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

[Tim Jowers]

FWIW,

  Knoppix (jan edition) and lots of the CD's from one of those $1 CD vendors
(even their version of FC6!!!) didn't work with my Nvidia 6100 card. Black
screen. Fiesty blacks for a while but comes back. Maybe it's doing something
for those 5 minutes. I'll have to try Fiesty on my desktop which has the
NVidia but just installed it on my laptop with ATI fine.
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP
330M/340M/350M
    Fiesty looks good. A little more polished than FC6. But same tools, GNU,
and Linux under the covers. Wireless worked right off the bat! Hooray! And I
can drag menu icons onto the panel. Hooray! Plus autodiscovery of winduhs
shares worked fine too. Just wish it included VPN in the base install.?
   Overall, very good. Reminds me of Apple back in the day when it was
simply simpler than Windows. I haven't even seen Vista anywhere but guess
it's similar to XP - what a mess compared to Ubuntu.

Tim


On 5/2/07, Andrew C. Oliver <acoliver at buni.org> wrote:
>
> I had fglrx.  I did attempt to upgrade with the proprietary drivers
> installed but did re-enable the one that came with the kernel first.
> Installing from scratch, I allowed it to do I assume the free drivers by
> default.  This failed.  I then had to manually do the X/driver install +
> copy an old Xorg.conf.
>
> -andy
>
> Sean Myers wrote:
> > Just a thought...did you upgrade with the free drivers installed, or
> > fglrx? Also, what card are you running?
> >
> > As for the warning, that's definitely true. Installing the ATI drivers
> > is a convoluted enough process when compared to the nvidia without the
> > added joy of drivers that aren't really compatible with your kernel.
> >
> > Does any have any stories of a simple ATI card install involving an X
> > server? If so, was 3d acceleration also involved?
> >
> > --
> > Sean Myers
> > System Administrator
> > American Research Institute
> > (919) 228-4961
> >
> >
> > Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> >> 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
> >>
>
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