Getting ATI's latest drivers to work on Ubuntu Dapper is a PITA!

[Nagaru]

Mine isn't to bad compared to some, and I undervolt in Windows but I know what you mean. I am looking at cutting out the plastic grills under my fans and replacing them with some sort of metal grate, they seem to be less that 50% efficient per unit area.

 

[PV5150]

I'm pretty sure the drivers (esp the ATI ones) for linux have changed loads since 2005 tho

I know the nvidia drivers location for FSAA & SBA changed about 6months+ ago. Probably quite a while before aswell as it changed from export to being in the module options and then the module options changed directory due to kernel changes.

Yeah you're right mate, and I haven't seriously dabbled with Linux for a while now.

 

[Joe]

I only had Dapper on disc, and with my FAP download limits it's hard to find the time to download large apps/OS's

DAmn man its much easier on fiesty they have a restircted soft installer for non FOSS compliant items like ATi drivers

and to get ur native res on a 16:9/16:10 screen be prepared to manually add the res to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file by running 'Sudo Gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf'

IME once u have Linux installed and configured it will be the smoothest OS out there ... except for DX games

 

[FragTek]

DAmn man its much easier on fiesty they have a restircted soft installer for non FOSS compliant items like ATi drivers

and to get ur native res on a 16:9/16:10 screen be prepared to manually add the res to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file by running 'Sudo Gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf'

IME once u have Linux installed and configured it will be the smoothest OS out there ... except for DX games

After installing the ATI drivers in Dapper my native screen res was detected immediately upon reboot @ 1440x900, w00t!