[ltp] Ubuntu 8.10 w/ T60p and FireGL 5250

[Phil Shotton]

I'm in the same boat. According to the Phorinix site Ubuntu 8.10 already 
has the drivers.
I've installed 8.10 on my home PC and it went smooth as silk. I'm just 
burning a CD to try it on the T60p. I'll report back...

Phil

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,
>
>
>
>   

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