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On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 11:00 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > From what I understand the Intel driver problems in Jaunty are due to a > buggy driver which will be fixed and rolled out when it's ready. In the > mean time it is possible to roll back to the older driver (details are > here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4) > Thanks for that. I will check it out. I know it's possible to switch to UXA instead of EXa but I found from a stock install it was still awfull compared to intrepid. thanks for the heads up. > I weighed up the pros and cons of upgrading to Jaunty and I figured the > advantages of upgrading to Jaunty and reverting to the older driver far > outweighed the cons. Jaunty is MUCH quicker, I mean blindingly quicker > on my notebook, boot time is about 30 seconds rather than about a minute > which when you're dual booting with Vista can be handy (Vista takes an > age to boot but I have some specific apps which it requires and I can't > virtualise Vista as it's an OEM licence tied into the hardware, it > simply won't Activate in Virtualbox and I aint paying for another licence!). I discovered that installing & using it unactivated then going through the online activation scenario worked for me. > > With regards to the ATI driver though, that's more ATI's fault rather > than the developers of Ubuntu. ATI took the decision to stop supporting > older cards which IMHO was a bad move. Sure yet they are releasing specs > etc for the cards now but they could have at least waited for the open > source drivers to at least catch up in terms of usability. From what I > understand some cards just have very basic OpenGL support at the moment, > and sure it'll get there but that doesn't really help those poor folks > who are stuck with older cards which aren't as well supported. > > Rob > I know and it proves the problems of relying on ati's closed source driver. the mobile X1200/1250 has been completely dropped by them. Hopefully the situation will improve with time or user pressure or even the open xorg driver will gain better 3d support. when I had my desktop I used to xorg radeon driver rather than fglrx for my ati card. Ray -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html