[Novalug] More ? on Ubuntu, ATI drivers and Compaq Presario

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 13:28:41 EDT 2009


On Saturday 25 July 2009 10:44:38 am Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> This is about the Compaq Presario 1800T and getting Ubuntu to display 
> its full video capability.
> 
> I put Jaunty on it and then found that the Jaunty install did not 
> have the ati driver(?) needed for the suggested modification of 
> xorg.conf.
> 
> I tried to get ati from apt-get and from synaptic. Not available for 
> Jaunty although it is in Intrepid Ibex (8.10) on my desktop.

Sure it is.

$ rmadison xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-ati |  1:6.8.0-1 |         hardy | source, amd64, i386
xserver-xorg-video-ati | 1:6.8.0-1ubuntu1 | hardy-updates | source, amd64, 
i386
xserver-xorg-video-ati | 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2 |      intrepid 
| source, amd64, i386
xserver-xorg-video-ati | 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1 | intrepid-
updates | source, amd64, i386
xserver-xorg-video-ati | 1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2 |        jaunty | source, amd64, 
i386
xserver-xorg-video-ati | 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu1 |        
karmic | source, amd64, i386

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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