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Idea #1108: Better support for ATI Graphics Card Users

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #2978: ATI (now AMD) video card drivers that actually work.
Written by nachovall the 29 Feb 08 at 08:20. Category: Graphics. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Many of the users with a graphic card ATI has problems to install ubuntu or doing an upgrade. It will be great, if ubuntu could has a better support for this type of controllers.
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Written by nachovall the 29 Feb 08 at 08:20.
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Lars Noodén wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 09:09
ATIs commitment to providing an open source driver should be encouraged with some kind of collaboration or effort.

edgarde wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 10:06
No specific suggestion except that ATI support has been a pain in all 3 of the computers on which I have installed Ubuntu. One user migrating from Windows got very discouraged about Linux over this. Perhaps it's a coincidence, but support for flat screen monitor (one recent widescreen model, two old IBM 15" jobs) settings was an issue on all three boxes.

wolfwitch wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 17:43
Unfortunately I've got two laptops and a desktop, all with ATI graphics. Dealing with video issues on them has been one of the biggest problems I've had with Ubuntu. It's also discouraged several friends from switching to Ubuntu from Windows. To Ubuntu's credit- other distros I've tried haven't worked any better. I think Ubuntu has a large enough install base now that they might be able to get something out of ATI, especially since Dell is a big customer of theirs.

rsepulvedacl wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:12
ATI seems to support only the most recent cards. :-(

At least by now I'm happy with a nVidia integrated card. :-D

Delta wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 17:34
Я очень хочу чтобы в 8.04 появилась нормальная поддержка карточек ATI (без всякой лишней ебли с консолью) !

arekkusu wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 16:42
Is it just me that think that kind of proposal will bring nothing?

-It's about a binary driver provided by AMD (ati)
-It doesn't concern only Ubuntu but all Linux

AND

AMD has been improving their driver and showing a positive attitude toward Linux.

And don't me wrong I have a X200 ati integrated graphic card and it doesn't work fine (3d in particular).

johngunderman wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 18:52
@arekkusu- good point. the ubuntu community can't really do anything about it without the help of ATI

peterjs wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 23:07
It's a binary driver, take your issues to AMD/ATI. We can't help you, we'd like to but it's not possible.

And let this be a lesson to you as to why closed source sucks.

exactopposite wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:10
http://www.radeonhd.org/

ATI is working wiht the open source community to develop drivers. This all started faily recently, and it's going to take some time.


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