Sunday, October 01, 2006
Finally!!
After about 6 months of not being able to have DRI (AKA 3D Acceleration) i have got it working in Edgy Beta 1 using fglrx 8.29.6. I am now very excited to finally have XGL on my laptop. I have also installed Beryl which is the compiz fork (it is very impressive especially seeing as it is still alpha). I am also pretty excited to try out my Doom 3 and Doom 3 Reurection of evil in linux. I also just recently bought Half-Life 2 Episode 1 and have yet to play it (because i am windows free :). I do not play games very often but have been missing it...(i have had Doom 3 for almost a year and have not played it for over 4 months...when i last played it i just got to Hell. Anyways this month is a big month for quite a few things: Ubuntu Edgy Eft comes out, JDK Mustang (i know Sun is not going with code names but i still like to name its 'former' code name), NetBeans 5.5, NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.5, Enterprise pack (i am very excited about this pack...i have been hoping for this for a while), Netbeans C/C++ pack (which needs better linux support btw, [i will write a blog about it when the 5.5 version comes out]). I have tried out all the software i have listed above from alpha to now and have seen many awesome changes! Well that is my little bit for the day...all i have to say i check out the compiz fork Beryl and check out NetBeans and its packs along with Ubuntu Edgy Eft (currently beta 1).
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Hey,
I read your blog a good long while back when I was trying to get my ati drivers working with the dreaded 200m on my laptop with ubuntu... it was a long day wasted to fighting with drivers that would not work no matter what anyway, not unlike what you experienced.
So now ati released drivers that do supposedly work and I came back to your blog to see if you had any posts and I see you DID get it working... but I haven't been so lucky. I have been fighting with kubuntu, ubuntu, suse 10.1 AND fedora core all day long and I want to kill myself now.
Can you just let me know where you got good instructions for getting them installed? I am a linux noob and it seems every page of directions I can find has at least one step that makes no sense to me or just doesn't work... I want to pull my hair out.
Thanks... my e-mail is legacy5k at hotmail.com by the way.
Hey,
I read your blog a good long while back when I was trying to get my ati drivers working with the dreaded 200m on my laptop with ubuntu... it was a long day wasted to fighting with drivers that would not work no matter what anyway, not unlike what you experienced.
So now ati released drivers that do supposedly work and I came back to your blog to see if you had any posts and I see you DID get it working... but I haven't been so lucky. I have been fighting with kubuntu, ubuntu, suse 10.1 AND fedora core all day long and I want to kill myself now.
Can you just let me know where you got good instructions for getting them installed? I am a linux noob and it seems every page of directions I can find has at least one step that makes no sense to me or just doesn't work... I want to pull my hair out.
Thanks... my e-mail is legacy5k at hotmail.com by the way.
whoops, I think I double posted, sorry....
Method 2 of this: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Edgy
_Installation_Guide
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