Beautiful
Downloaded, burned and booted without a hitch. I installed the new Gutsy and it loaded, without the ATI driver of course, but with GUI working!
I simply enabled the ATI and WiFi drivers from the Restricted Drivers link in System > Administration and … It works great.
Not perfect of course. Enabling their new built in Effects didn’t work until I installed XGL server and booted into it. However, got a message saying that from now on I need to boot into the default normal session and XGL will auto start…interesting. I may not have needed to create a custom start script afterall. We’ll see.
Right now I’m creating a custom boot disk that will have the ATI and WiFi drivers pre-installed. We’ll be testing a lot of these and I’ll make it available for download when it works.
Later…
PS: If it didn’t boot into the GUI before for you, I suggest downloading a fresh copy, it may be they made updates after you tried.
What about suspend/hibernate? I have no success on that yet…
John,
Happy to see you are still working this.
I’m wondering whether upgrading to 7.10 from a workable v.7.04 would likely retain ATI and WiFi drivers from older install? Did you try this?
Don
I upgrade from 7.10. It already had the ATI graphics acceleration and WiFi enabled in the restricted drivers. However effect did not work. I’m currently working on it.
Dual monitor support IS Flawed. I have a Samsung 23 720p HDTV connected via VGA. Plug and Play monitor settings do not include a resolution acceptable for a 720p HDTV.
I have tried tinkering around with these settings and It has lead to a great many of bugs messing with my primary monitor. I.e. only one acceptable resolution 1440 x 900 or in one instance a bug caused my montior to only display resolutions below 800×600.
I have also tried working with x.org.conf by adding the 1650 resolution into the modes. However this did not work.
Dogfox,
Unfortunately it looks like an upgrade doesn’t do the trick. Mainly because it still replaces the kernel and the new kernel is the issue with the compat problems between the fglrx driver, etc.
TheDukeNY,
Good information, thank you. Yea, I don’t know what the deal is with the dual monitors not working, but you may try the Official ATI driver idea that I did in my latest post.
Blaxnate,
Check my latest post for a “fix”.