Questions about Ubuntu

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 14:43:01 EDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
>  Ah-ha!  So, even though the driver is so new the paint hasn't dried
> yet, somebody has still packaged it up for Ubuntu.  Nice.
>  Bruce, you may want to give Ubuntu a try, just to see how it works
> with your video card.  Ubuntu has a pretty nice "live CD", so testing
> should be pretty painless.

  I *think* it made it into the 8.04 LTS release.  the radeonhd driver
itself has been in the ubuntu testing repositories since last year.

-- 
-- Thomas


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