Saturday, August 6, 2011

Ubuntu & Mint + ATI

I have an interesting week within Linux Mint as well as a couple of days within Ubuntu 11.04.

My computer's graphics card is an ATI card, and I've read many things about them not working well with linux.

Although not horrible, I did find some issues in Mint with the ATI driver. Fortunately I didn't actually need them in Mint!

With Ubuntu it was a different story. Again, not that I needed them but in Unity I actually found the drivers to work quite well.
However when I installed gnome3 (or shell), the graphics appeared all messed up. So naturally the first thing I did was remove the driver.

After a reboot gnome 3 worked like a charm!

So I guess just a heads up to anyone thinking of installing gnome 3 with ATI graphics driver installed, you might have to remove them in order for it to work properly.

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