Buntus no longer support older ati cards?

[kbunt]

Re: Karmic is a failure, imho

Fine. Maybe you are using 9.04.

If I'm supposed to take your word for it or the countless users posting to Launchpad, I'll take the Launchpad posters, thanks.

[kbunt]

Re: Karmic is a failure, imho

kbunt, if you would look you would find my own post of this just last week:

You are referring to post #12, Nov 3rd?

I was told that 'accelmethod' "should be XAA but now I'm being told it should be 'EXA?'

Xorg.conf now has nothing in it so I need to copy/paste specific settings? Why is it this hard? I don't see why Joe user is supposed to do all this. I know XAA DOESN'T work in Ubuntu since I just tried it (I copy/pasted settings I found in the forums) since someone was saying to change to that from EXA.

I just was just experimenting as I wait for my new laptop drive to arrive.

[kbunt]

Re: Karmic is a failure, imho

You've stated the issue in your own words: "But, have older hardware especially ATI graphics and you are up the creek."

Are you really expecting/demanding that 'older hardware' be fully supported in *all* *ubuntu releases? That is not realistic. Desirable maybe, but not realistic. That Karmic is a 'failure' on your 'older' system isn't anything more than an issue with your system and Karmic, not the other way around.

Yes, I think all releases should support them even if the performance isn't great. I think hard crashes to the system should not be happening. Yes, I think this since they are open source drivers.