On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Sudhangathan B S <[email protected]>wrote:
> Heyy Studios, > > I am planning to buy a Laptop and have already decided to put Ubuntu > Studio as it is my favorite Distribution since the last 4 to 5 years. I am > planning to a laptop with extra Graphics card. I have found that (from a > short survey) AMD/ATI, NVIDIA have lot of driver problems and they just > won't work, and I have experienced it myself while using other laptops. > > I often video/photo edit after my adventures. > If anybody is successfully using a graphics card with Studio, i.e. with a > fully working driver and smooth graphics, please let me know the model of > the graphics card and the laptop(or even desktop) configurations. > Do you mean to connect an external graphic card? I run Ubuntu Studio 12.04 64 bit on a Sony Vaio VPCEB1S1E with an "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 - 1024 MB, Core: 450 MHz, Memory: 790 MHz, 8.14.10.0708". In earlier US versions had some trouble with shadings before I installed ATI proprietary drivers, but I haven't seen those issues since 12.04. In 12.04 I chose Additional Drivers and "ATI/AMD proprietary graphics driver", not the experimental beta or post-release but they might function well, I just haven't tested them as I want as stable environment as possible. My only reason to use the ATI drivers were to connect my external monitor through HDMI, which I couldn't get to work properly without installing the ATI drivers. For some reason I had to start up AMD Catalyst Control Center every time I booted up before the driver would understand that the external monitor was connected. Then one day it just stopped and remember the settings anyway. I have also tried it out on 12.10 64 bit, worked the same as in 12.04. Then I installed 13.04 64 bit when it was released and installed the latest driver from ATI manually. Same issue there, I had to start the AMD control center every boot to redo my settings for the monitors. Recently I have found that I might be able to configure the external monitor within Xfce without involving the ATI drivers, but I haven't investigated further since, well it already works. I don't do any 3D or gaming so I have no experience in the behaviour there. /Jimmy
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