[aklug] Re: Distributions, and a couple liesurely questions

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 17:35:27 AKDT

On Thursday 19 March 2009, David Prentice said something like:
> Mint installs with Envy to build the ATI support out of ATI's
> catalyst source code; Ubuntu needs Envy installed seperately to get
> the same.

I'm not sure this is true anymore, or maybe not the way I'm thinking
about it. Ubuntu now has a utility called "Jockey" to install
proprietary drivers. It won't build from source, but it will install
and configure the fglrx driver for you. I used kde-jockey to configure
my laptop, and it's running great!

j

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