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New Ubuntu 9.04 installed - not many dead
Blog My standard Ubuntu system at home is a beginning-to-show-its-age Samsung laptop, with a once-was-whizzy ATI graphics chip and a few mild quirks around the audio. The upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 broke video and audio rather badly; 8.04 to 8.10 rather...
[April 20, 2009, 11:36]
Various Thoughts and Experiences with Linux
Blog It will sort of install on the S2110; it is still not happy when booting the Live CD, because of the ATI display adapter. It won't even load on the S2110, I suspect because of the ATI display adapter.
[November 13, 2008, 13:38]
HP "Entertainment PC" Revisited
Blog The 2133 has a VIA C7-M CPU and VIA Chrome 9 graphic controller; the 2140 was a very standard Intel Atom based system, and the new 1010ez has an AMD Athlon Neo CPU and ATI Radeon graphic controller. The AMD Athlon Neo processor is noticeably faster...
[September 29, 2009, 14:27]
HP Pavillion dv2-1010ez Entertainment Notebook
Blog Some time ago I saw an HP 1010ez, which has an AMD Athlon Neo CPU and ATI Radeon graphic controller. It caught my eye because of my experience with the Lifebook S2110, which has an AMD Turion CPU and ATI Radeon 200M graphic controller (which is...
[September 20, 2009, 9:12]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog I am using dual displays (laptop and external) on both of my Fujitsu Lifebooks (one Intel 965 and one ATI Radeon Express 200M), and I have changed the Display setting to "not mirrored", so the desktop spans both displays, and it works great.
[April 24, 2009, 9:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's an ATI.er, something. Then find that ATI want me to download .Net (30MB) and some wrapper (25MB) in order to get the right driver (Probably well under 1MB). Stop Bugging Me Bill Windows XP, Genuine Ubuntu, and a Genuine Dell
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
Is Windows 7 better than Vista on (Slightly) Older Hardware?
Blog The sound began to work (I love some of the new exclamation sounds when you click something stupid) as did the graphics, but after every reboot the ATI Control Panel causes a Windows compatibility message to come up.
[October 27, 2009, 12:44]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment Likewise, it works flawlessly on my Lifebook S2110, which has the "dreaded ATI graphic adapter". The only thing which I disagree about, rather strongly, is about Ubuntu. I have found at least the last two releases of Ubuntu to be significantly...
[December 16, 2008, 7:37]
Fedora 11
Blog Once I got that worked out, I was able to install Fedora 11 on both of my notebooks (Fujitsu S6510, Intel, and Fujitsu-Siemens S2110, AMD/ATI), and it works very well. Support for all of the various integrated devices and controllers is just fine...
[June 28, 2009, 8:18]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment Most of the world doesn't have the luxury of broadband internet, nor the patience to understand what an ATI video driver is. The typical new user is more comfortable in the Ubuntu community than the Slackware community.
[December 16, 2008, 7:36]
openSolaris 2008.11
Blog It also doesn't have a driver for the ATI AC'97 Modem, but that doesn't bother me as much. Oh, and by the way, it is using the "ati" driver, not the proprietary "fglrx" driver, pretty much what I expected.openSolaris on the x86 platform uses the...
[March 20, 2009, 12:13]
Windows 8/2012- Intel graphics driver support
Talkback In 2012 Intel have better things to be spending their time on new 3d mobile graphics chipsets which came out to compete with nvidia ion 9400M mobile chipset and amd's ATI Mobility Radeon 4850/4870 Chipset.
[May 11, 2009, 9:28]
Latest updates from Dell
Blog Dell Precision M6400 Covet with ATI graphics Dell has now introduced models using ATI's brand-new FirePro Mobility M7740 workstation graphics chip, offering 1GB of video memory and a DisplayPort interface.
[September 8, 2009, 15:31]
Mandriva Spring 2009 Released
Blog That is particularly impressive when you consider that two of them are netbooks with VIA Chrome 9 video chips and very small screens, and another one has an ATI video chip which had been a problem for the Mandriva distribution even in the 2009.0...
[April 30, 2009, 15:38]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog I have heard the same comments on other blog posts, and in fact I have seen the same sort of "issues" with my Lifebook S2110 (often because of the ATI display adapter). At the other end of the scale are what I see as the "All In One" distributions...
[December 15, 2008, 10:12]
Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment So far, it's worked very well in dealing with most of the non-free media and driver installations that are necessary, and while I'm still having pain over video resolution that really does seem to be down to ATI driver issues.
[October 24, 2007, 21:14]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon swings on the Asus Eee
Blog Comment I also like the fact that Mandriva can run the 3D desktop effects off my 64Mb ATI on board graphics card, which no other distro will do I have found. I notice you always refer to/use Ubuntu. Why do you prefer Ubuntu over other main distro's?
[November 9, 2007, 8:47]
An Impressive Week with Ubuntu
Blog I found the hardware management window, and according to that, there were only a few "problems" - the built-in softmodem required a proprietary driver which had not been loaded automatically, the Atheros WiFi adapter also required one, but it had...
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
Ubuntu on Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog The first thing I checked was the Ubuntu hardware manager, and I found that there were no proprietary drivers required or offered for this laptop (the S2110 had needed one for the modem, and offered one for the ATI display adapter).
[June 5, 2008, 9:16]
A tale of two Vista systems
Blog The other system is a dual quad-core Xeon workstation with 4GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X1800 graphics card, which again initially ran Windows XP. This once-cherished notebook has languished for a while, and is now awaiting a new lease of life...
[August 22, 2007, 10:10]
