{"id":490,"date":"2011-03-30T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T23:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=490"},"modified":"2011-03-30T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T23:08:28","slug":"on-fglrx-support-in-natty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/on-fglrx-support-in-natty\/","title":{"rendered":"On fglrx support in Natty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve already written in <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-devel\/2011-March\/032812.html\">the ubuntu-devel mailing list<\/a>, <strong><\/strong>a new fglrx driver (2:8.840-0ubuntu1) is now available in Natty and it finally works with the new xserver. There are still a few issues whose fixes should land after Beta 1 is released:<\/p>\n<p>1) compiz needs to be updated so that fglrx can work with Unity. Currently the &#8220;Classic Desktop&#8221; session works well but the &#8220;Ubuntu Desktop&#8221; one doesn&#8217;t. If you&#8217;d like to test Unity with the new driver, you can use Unity&#8217;s daily builds from the PPA, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/DesktopExperienceTeam\/UnityWithFglrxBeta\">as described here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2) currently the driver is not offered for installation in Jockey. A fix is already available in Jockey&#8217;s development branch though.  In the meantime, if you wish to install the new fglrx driver, you can do it manually by following these commands:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install fglrx\nsudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf (and select the line with fglrx)\nsudo update-initramfs -u<\/pre>\n<p>and finally reboot.  No xorg.conf is required as the driver will be automatically loaded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> despite what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=OTI3MQ\">the relevant article from Phoronix<\/a> claims, the driver doesn&#8217;t support AMD&#8217;s PowerXpress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve already written in the ubuntu-devel mailing list, a new fglrx driver (2:8.840-0ubuntu1) is now available in Natty and it finally works with the new xserver. There are still a few issues whose fixes should land after Beta 1 is released: 1) compiz needs to be updated so that fglrx can work with Unity. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/on-fglrx-support-in-natty\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planet","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}