[ltp] Ubuntu 8.10 w/ T60p and FireGL 5250

[Phil Shotton]

Yep. Did a clean install of 8.10 last night, everything works like a charm.
The display is fine using standard Xorg and ATI (radeon) driver. System 
keeps prompting me to use the restricted fglrx but out-of-the box it 
does everything I want, including monitor switching, dual-head and suspend.
It's also the first time I've had the wireless network operating 
correctly with the open-source drivers; before I was having to use 
ndiswrapper.

Great work Ubuntu team and all involved in the release.
Phil

gervin23@fastmail.fm wrote:
> I have the exact setup you do and 8.10 fixed all my video problems. Make
> sure you start fresh by renaming /etc/X11/xorg.conf to something else as
> backup. This lets the latest X do its auto-configure magic which in this
> case chooses the open source radeon driver. 
>
> Until now I've never had the 3 biggies working all at once:
> - proper switch between internal (1400x1050, 4:3) and external
> (1920x1200, 16:10)
> - compiz
> - suspend-to-ram
>
> I was getting very frustrated with my ATI under linux until I loaded the
> alpha of 8.10 months back. Huge thanks to the radeon team.
>
> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 06:03 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
>   
>> When I first got this laptop I was using the fglrx driver and had fast
>> glxgears and compiz working but failed to resume after sleep.
>>
>> After an update to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS I'm now using the Xorg ati driver
>> thanks to this list and this link:
>>
>>      http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9951
>>
>> That fixed sleep, but compiz isn't supported and I was told on the
>> forum that I needed a newer xorg server for compiz.
>>
>> I saw someplace that 8.10 has a newer xorg server.
>>
>> Has anyone installed Ubuntu 8.10 on this hardware?  Anything special
>> needed or will I finally be able to run this video card on the 8.10
>> packages?
>>
>> Anything else I should be aware of before upgrading?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Bill Moseley
>> moseley@hank.org
>> Sent from my iMutt
>>
>>     
>
>