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Will my ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 M7 LW work on Lucid?

Asked by Nanonic

Currently on Karmic, I use the "radeon" driver ("ati" and "fglrx" didn't work) via my xorg.conf and thus have very very basic graphics support in compiz (no fancy styles, no visual fripperies, no 3d spinning cube) Are there any known issues with this device in Lucid? If I upgrade once 10.04 is released, will I have to change any configurations/tweak anything to get it to work or will the new release take all my woes away and fix everything?

I've seen that xorg.conf is being deprecated, will this also have an effect or will the conf file still be read for legacy devices?

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subliminalfix (subliminalfix) said : 		#1

sorry your having troubles

try going to system>administ. >software source >third party & updates =select all "check"

it wil ask to reload on closing =yes

goto system>admin>hardwaredrivers do you now have an option??

if that does not work you will need to go to system>admin>synaptic in the side box<left side move to meta package(multi)

select restricted extras and then reboot if needed and goto system>preference>appereance>(select visual effect) extra

i am also using the ati and this should help if not dont give up!!!

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

Hi :)

10.04 has no xorg.conf at all! You can make one if you follow Larry's advice
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/108290

Also it might be then worth following this thread
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/108736

Always before upgrading try a LiveCd session!
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

Ideally the next step is to create a 10-15Gb partition and install it to that just to check things work the way you want them to. It is worth keeping in mind the Karmic had 18months support and still has 1 years worth of support left. So it gives you plenty of time to try things out.

Generally i think it's recognised as best-practice to keep 1 stable install of linux to use when you are in a hurry and then have 1 just to play around with and tweak. If you can arrange to have a separate /home partition then that would keep your data&settings safer
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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