ati drivers fail -- migrating to ubuntu

Mon Sep 7 23:57:56 UTC 2009

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:43:45 -0500
Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> Have you tried the nomodeset kernel parameter? I use that for my rv280 based
> 9200. The 7200 is based on a r100 chip, but you might have some luck with that.

By golly, you're right. Been fooling with older fedora so much this weekend,
I forgot about nomodeset. That plus xdriver=vesa seems to make it work (at least
it actually get into the installer now). Thanks.