ati drivers fail -- migrating to ubuntu

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:21:16 -0500
Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> If that is your expectation, Fedora isn't the distro for you. Fedora is
> not going to hold up kernel development to wait for propreitary video
> drivers to be released.

And it isn't gonna worry about breaking older cards that used to work
fine either :-). Been killing time this weekend trying to resurrect
a random collection of old hardware and Fedora 8 talks to my ancient radeon
7200 just fine, anything after fedora 8 just turns the screen into
multi-color vertical lines (I can't even get the vesa driver to work).

I haven't yet found a distro that can both talk to the radeon 7200 and
the pci-e gigabit ethernet adapter.