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Thank you, kind sir. You are a scholar and a gentleman. ...

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I'd love to test it out. Running Ubuntu Hardy on three machines with various configurations, so I think I would probably be a fairly good test subject...

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Well, I had enough and tossed out my ATI x1650 Pro and replaced it with a brand-new Nvidia card this afternoon.

Worked right out of the...

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... and here is my xorg.conf

And here is my xorg.conf:

# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)

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8.01 doesn't work for me.

Well, after installing this driver, I cannot even get into the GDM login screen. I just get a blank, black screen...

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Well, I took the plunge and installed 7.12 in Ubuntu Gutsy with my X1650 Pro card and lost the Xserver. It would boot up and give me a blank screen. Then...

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Should I bother?

I guess the question is this:

I am running a ATI x1650 Pro with driver 8.40.4 (or whatever, the 8.40 one)...

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Well, since 8.40.4 works fine for me and the only problems I have with 8.42.3 are its slowness and video flickering, I'm actually looking forward to the...

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Well, I switched back to XGL because the performance was way better. It's great that they added AIGLX, but I think I'll wait until they fine tune it so...

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How do I downgrade to xserver-1.3 in Ubuntu? I can't find that package anywhere.

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I installed the driver on Gutsy with a Radeon 1650 Pro 512MB AGP card. THe install went fine, but I got the White Screen of Death. The above fix worked...

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Mine's an X1650 Pro AGP and X dies after the install. Yet another AMD/ATI failure.

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In no way am I 'shouting blindly' at all. I'm posting valid concerns about the information posted here. Information, I might add, that was either exaggerated,...

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Dude, you hyped up expectations too much and you got burned. That's just the way it is. You should have been more objective and you weren't. You took...

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This driver may EVENTUALLY become the bee's knees, but all I'm saying is that I no longer trust this website to give me the straight goods on whether...