Been trying to get this damn thing to work for days now. I bought this Alienware laptop thinking it will last me a while and I'll orgasm every time I boot it up.
Long story short, I know not to use the proprietary drivers. I installed Jaunty 64bit first, struggled, switched to Intrepid, struggled even more, and now I'm back to Jaunty 64bit. At least the failsafe settings actually are fail safe...
I tried Intrepid to see if 9.3 drivers + older Xserver would work, but I couldn't get it to work. Thought about going way back to Hardy, but I figured at least I'm seeing the login screen with Jaunty (and correct monitor resolution), so whatever...
In any case, I am trying to use the radeonhd drivers since I saw that support for M88 cards has been added. I couldn't find anything about regular radeon drivers working with the card, so I went with the hd "version". Can't get it to work, tried the regular radeon, can't get it to work either.
For the record, this is what I have done to install the radeonhd drivers:
I've messed with all kinds of settings in my xorg.conf file, but it seems that only vesa will actually do anything. At this point all I want is 2D support, so that I can at least keep making my crappy little 2D gravity simulator and not have it run choppy on a $1700 machine... I was hoping to upgrade it to 3D over the summer by using OpenGL via SDL, but I guess I'll either have to wait for Karmic or use Vista.
Oh, I'm not dead set on Ubuntu, either. I'm willing to try another distro if for some reason it has some sort of magic code in there or something. I tried Archlinux once, didn't go so hot, but I'd be willing to try a different distro again no problems. Unless, of course, going back to Intrepid or Hardy is the better choice. I'd do that too, no problems.
Long story short, I know not to use the proprietary drivers. I installed Jaunty 64bit first, struggled, switched to Intrepid, struggled even more, and now I'm back to Jaunty 64bit. At least the failsafe settings actually are fail safe...
I tried Intrepid to see if 9.3 drivers + older Xserver would work, but I couldn't get it to work. Thought about going way back to Hardy, but I figured at least I'm seeing the login screen with Jaunty (and correct monitor resolution), so whatever...
In any case, I am trying to use the radeonhd drivers since I saw that support for M88 cards has been added. I couldn't find anything about regular radeon drivers working with the card, so I went with the hd "version". Can't get it to work, tried the regular radeon, can't get it to work either.
For the record, this is what I have done to install the radeonhd drivers:
I've messed with all kinds of settings in my xorg.conf file, but it seems that only vesa will actually do anything. At this point all I want is 2D support, so that I can at least keep making my crappy little 2D gravity simulator and not have it run choppy on a $1700 machine... I was hoping to upgrade it to 3D over the summer by using OpenGL via SDL, but I guess I'll either have to wait for Karmic or use Vista.
Oh, I'm not dead set on Ubuntu, either. I'm willing to try another distro if for some reason it has some sort of magic code in there or something. I tried Archlinux once, didn't go so hot, but I'd be willing to try a different distro again no problems. Unless, of course, going back to Intrepid or Hardy is the better choice. I'd do that too, no problems.
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