Club409 - back on the penguin . . .

torzan

Total posts: 310

12/14/2007 12:56 AM

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]

mwinter

Total posts: 4328

12/14/2007 1:01 AM

i could look up details for you or i could post the wikijourney for XRandR.

light a man on fire he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

edit: this post is from 2005 but it might help you determine if your vid card + driver supports xrandr..

torzan

Total posts: 310

12/14/2007 1:07 AM

i'm not going to say you failed my young padawan but i have spent some life grains on xRANDr to no avail. i shall study your selection in more depth and determine the quality of your decision.

torzan

Total posts: 310

12/14/2007 1:16 AM

supported drivers

try again.

Steven

Total posts: 751

2/22/2010 9:52 AM

finally got around to installing ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala) on the desktop. it had been a while since my last install (i think i was running 8.10) so maybe it's been a gradual process but i feel like it is a vastly improved OS. for the first time on any machine the live CD actually worked for me which greatly simplifies the process. everything seems to work right out of the box the way it should. with previous versions it always took forever to get everything working mostly due to either to a lack of support for ATI video cards or the 64-bit CPU. the flash player was always particularly buggy and really i never got it working the way it should have (it would randomly quit working in firefox until a reboot). on karmic everything's been perfect from the start with the exception of one minor fix for the flash plugin. overall it comes across as much more polished than any distro i'd seen before hopefully that impression lasts beyond the first 2 hours