[ltp] T60p, free driver?

Paul Fisher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 16 May 2007 17:52:44 -0400


Richard Neill wrote:
> I find that the fglrx driver is too unstable (crashes about once a
> month, locking the system solid) - eg by doing repeated dragging within
> google-maps.
I've not had any stability problems with the fglrx driver on my T60p
with Ubuntu 7.04.

But yes, I think you will only have the options of fglrx and vesa.  The
good news is that ATI will eventually be opening their graphics drivers:
<http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/>,
so things might be improving eventually :)