[ltp] Ubuntu 8.10 w/ T60p and FireGL 5250

[gervin23@fastmail.fm]

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
>