[ltp] Shame and degradation: T60, ATI X1400, fglrx, Gutsy, apt-get dist-upgrade, fonts, HW accel, suspend/resume

[Richard Neill]

> That's not to say I'm happy with it.  Hell I've spent countless hours
> debugging the suspend/resume problems and every, every time they were
> related to the infamous ATI driver.  It works now but who knows if it
> will after the next upgrade? :-)  And we're in 2008.  It's almost 2
> years since I got this laptop.  I'm not buying ATI again, never ever.
> 

You don't actually *need* 3d acceleration for anything except pretty 
screensavers and compiz. 2D acceleration is nice (it makes 
vertical-scrolling smoother), but not really needed on a machine with a 
fast CPU. Fglrx also seems to cause the occasional system hang.

On my T60p, I have been using the vesa (generic) driver for ages, and am 
perfectly happy with it.

Regards,

Richard