Name: Fuck ATI 2009-07-23 9:23
Hi there,
I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my somewhat elderly laptop a few days ago. It all ran fine until I decided to run some little 3D game I downloaded. The window it ran in began to flash (though it seemed to work, apparently), but when I tried to exit the program, Ubuntu stalled and I had to hard-reset the computer. On the next start, Ubuntu would load to the point where it would usually display the login screen, but instead of that, I was greeted with a mostly black screen with some fucked up graphics in the top third. No reaction from the system whatsoever.
I already tried resetting xserver in recovery mode, and de- and reinstalled nearly everything graphics-related via command line, yet to no avail.
I blame it all on that piece of shit ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 excuse of a graphics card that Siemens unleashed onto mankind hidden beneath a perfectly good system with an AMD Turion X64 dualcore processor and ATI's unability to code decent drivers. I had similar problems on the same computer when I installed OpenSUSE two years back.
Any advice?
I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my somewhat elderly laptop a few days ago. It all ran fine until I decided to run some little 3D game I downloaded. The window it ran in began to flash (though it seemed to work, apparently), but when I tried to exit the program, Ubuntu stalled and I had to hard-reset the computer. On the next start, Ubuntu would load to the point where it would usually display the login screen, but instead of that, I was greeted with a mostly black screen with some fucked up graphics in the top third. No reaction from the system whatsoever.
I already tried resetting xserver in recovery mode, and de- and reinstalled nearly everything graphics-related via command line, yet to no avail.
I blame it all on that piece of shit ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 excuse of a graphics card that Siemens unleashed onto mankind hidden beneath a perfectly good system with an AMD Turion X64 dualcore processor and ATI's unability to code decent drivers. I had similar problems on the same computer when I installed OpenSUSE two years back.
Any advice?