ati drivers fail -- migrating to ubuntu

[J Bufton]

On 07/09/09 20:38, Kevin Abbey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd am reluctantly migrating to ubuntu since ati drivers still do not
> install in fedora 9, 10, or 11.  I have tried installing the
> proprietary ati driver almost every month for the past year and a half
> with no success.
>
> I hope that fedora get a new maintainer for this and coordinates
> updates with fedora and redhat and ATI,AMD.  If I find the time to
> learn this and do it I'll be sure to post it.  So far I have been able
> to extract the source and build the driver module but not the complete
> package and install.
>
> I've read of others success with the install but can not seem to
> reproduce myself.
>
> Alternatively, I'll be using only NVidia cards in the future so that I
> can use fedora.
>
>
> I'm interested to learn opinions on this subject from the fedora community.
>
> Kevin
>
>    
I'm still sticking with nVidia chipsets, the drivers seem to be more 
reliable. Heard some horror stories about ati Linux drivers.

JB