Indeed, I thought something could be wrong with the latest patch of Ubuntu/8.10 xserver.
My card is an X1300.
Yes, indeed we are screwed.
For several reasons:
1) Staying with fglrx (even if it worked), woudl mean renounce to new releases of Ubuntu/Linux
2) Choosing the ati driver I noticed about 1/2 frames per second with respect to fglrx. It is not bad but the card works half it could.
3) I tried to install Ubuntu/8.04: the problem is still there with 9.3. I tried Ubuntu/8.10 with 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 8.12, but none of this seems to work. For a moment 9.1 gave me some hope, for a moment only.
4) Having found no way to make fglrx working (of course I haven't tried all the permutations/fixes--just a simple ati driver install), I see no other way that to stick to the ati driver.
5) The ati driver behaves not badly, but worse than fglrx. A possibility is that the legacy drivers will go open source--I really hope so. If not, we need to wait some saint hacker who keeps opening the way to a perfect opensource ati driver.
@fermulator.
Indeed, I thought something could be wrong with the latest patch of Ubuntu/8.10 xserver.
My card is an X1300.
Yes, indeed we are screwed.
For several reasons:
1) Staying with fglrx (even if it worked), woudl mean renounce to new releases of Ubuntu/Linux
2) Choosing the ati driver I noticed about 1/2 frames per second with respect to fglrx. It is not bad but the card works half it could.
3) I tried to install Ubuntu/8.04: the problem is still there with 9.3. I tried Ubuntu/8.10 with 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 8.12, but none of this seems to work. For a moment 9.1 gave me some hope, for a moment only.
4) Having found no way to make fglrx working (of course I haven't tried all the permutations/ fixes-- just a simple ati driver install), I see no other way that to stick to the ati driver.
5) The ati driver behaves not badly, but worse than fglrx. A possibility is that the legacy drivers will go open source--I really hope so. If not, we need to wait some saint hacker who keeps opening the way to a perfect opensource ati driver.