Comment 32 for bug 284408

The fix here is not a "fix" for the fglrx issues as those will have to
be resolved by AMD/ATI. The fix is for Ubuntu users who are upgrading
to Intrepid and using the fglrx driver, the upgrade will prompt them
to disable the restricted driver and use one of the open source ones.
That is, Intrepid users with R300 drivers should use the open source
drivers for the time being.

No doubt this is a triage fix in order to prevent an "unusable" system
following an upgrade - which depending on AMD/ATI's resolution will
have a more permanent solution in the future -- fix the bug for R300
hardware, or discontinue support for it. Due to the widespread use of
this hardware I would assume that the latter will be the choice with
support being discontinued in the not-so-distance future.

Regards, Cole

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Esteban00 <email address hidden> wrote:
> So the fix is to use free drivers instead of fglrx.
> I'm using xserver-xorg-video-radeon packages, are they the same xserver-xorg-video-ati one ?
> For desktop use they seen to be ok, so use them instead of fglrx, t'll AMD/ATI release a new driver supporting R3xx chipsets.
>
> --
> r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408
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>

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Cole Nielsen