The trouble with patching your kernel to fix a problem…
If you remember a while back I was having a world of trouble trying to get my ATi drivers to play nicely with my desktop effects. The end result was me having to patch and rebuild my kernel to make...
View ArticleAnother kernel update, another rebuild of my kernel
Seriously, this is getting annoying… And just when I thought it couldn’t get anymore annoying… it seems as though there isn’t a kmod-catalyst for the newest version of the kernel that I just got...
View ArticleUpdate: I can have my cake and eat it too!
If you have been following my posts on here you’ll know that I have a very… fragile setup. I am doing everything in my power to ensure that Linux and my ATi graphics card play together nicely. The...
View ArticleFedora 12 Graphics [Update]
I stumbled upon this news thread which mentioned open source ATI driver support through the use of the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. Promptly installing this yum install...
View ArticleOver one month later and I STILL cannot install Fedora 12
Thanks to incompatibilities with ATI’s catalyst drivers and the newest version of Xorg used in Fedora I am still unable to install Fedora 12 on my machine. Yes, I know there are open source...
View ArticleFix ATI vsync & video tearing issue once and for all!
NOTE: ATI’s most recent drivers now include a no tearing option in the driver control panel. Enabling it there is now the preferred method. Two of the linux machines that I use both have ATI graphics...
View ArticleClosed source AMD/ATI drivers, wireless networking and Flash in Gentoo
Graphics Drivers Continuing where I left off in my previous posts I now had a somewhat working desktop but a few things still had to be done. For one I am running this on my laptop and while the open...
View ArticleUsing ATI Catalyst drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 with old hardware
As of version 12.10, Ubuntu has upgraded the version of X.org they include to the latest and unfortunately it is no longer compatible with the official ATI Catalyst drivers for some cards, specifically...
View ArticleChanging ATI power profile to low
My laptop’s graphics card has never had the best support on linux and has now approached the point in its life where even ATI has stopped supporting it with new driver releases. On one hand I’m...
View ArticleInstalling Linux to an external hard drive (+ driver issues)
While I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to be doing for this round of The Linux Experiment, I have decided that now is a good time to try something I’ve been meaning to try for a while: get...
View ArticleA tale of a gillion installs
Install number one: LMDE 201303. I was hoping for the best of both worlds, but I got driver issues instead. LMDE has known ATI proprietary driver install issues. I followed the Mint instructions and...
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