Questions about Ubuntu

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 12:38:26 EDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Does Ubuntu support ATI/AMD video cards out of the box?  3D drivers
>> included?
>
>  Yes, you simply have to run the restricted driver manager and 'turn them on'.

  Does that include the recent AMD/ATI video card that Bruce has?
>From what I recall from list discussions a few months ago, the drivers
were rather experimental, but they were Open Source.  I thought the
"restricted driver manager" in Ubuntu was for binary-only drivers.

-- Ben


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