Friday, July 29, 2016
ATI Catalist 7 12 on Ubuntu 7 10
ATI Catalist 7 12 on Ubuntu 7 10
Recently Ive tried this drivers and compiz started working on my Mobility Radeon X2300.
Heres how Ive got the drivers to work.
1 remove old drivers
first you need to remove the drivers downloaded from the ubuntu repository.
$ sudo apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx2 Install the new driver
follow the procedure as described on point 2 at http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gutsy_Installation_Guide
3 bugs
With this lease you can enable compiz but video playback, google-earth and all the applications which require an overlay start flickering and are unusable.
The system works perfectly with compiz disables :(
4 power management
With this release ati (amd) claims that the problems related to suspend and hibernate are solved.
I havent tried it yet as Ive managed to disable this features time ago (when the system tried to suspend hanged-up) and I dont want to retry right know to figure out if now is working (maybe on a fresh install of 8.04). If you think you can have an easy configuration guide (packages needed, and manual editing to /etc/... files feel free to contact me. If it works on my Asus notebook Ill add it on my blog.
