Questions about Ubuntu

[Thomas Charron]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>  Depends on the driver.  Out of the box Ubuntu will use the open
>> source ati or radeon driver.  If you enable the ATI driver in the
>> restricted driver manager, it will install and use the fglrx module.
>  Okay... but I don't think that helps Bruce any.  Again, his problem
> was that the drivers his card were experimental.  Not "restricted",
> but experimental.  I think the driver name might have been "radeonhd".
>  It might have been so new that you had to grab sources from a CVS
> repository or some such thing.

  You have a better memory then I.  :-D  In that case, just:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd

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-- Thomas