ATI graphics is a nightmare for linux

I got a new Dell machine. It was ATI's graphics card. It was so miserable to use linux on it. I installed the machine several times.

For Ubuntu9.04, when the installation disk is started, the grub gui cannot be seen at all and cannot be installed. As long as fedora10 is installed, the installation method is normal and the screen is flushed. Fortunately, fedora10 can display the GRUB menu normally at least, compile it by tab, and add "linux xdriver = vesa ", you can install the universal graphics card driver by force.

After installing linux, You can import the driver of the video card on the ATI website and install it properly. However, if we use automatic update or some packages need to be downloaded in our application, black screen or vase may appear during startup, so the ATI Video card driver cannot be installed. Maybe we can add the so-called aticonfig -- initial-f at startup to delete it? Is it useful? Never tried! The best way is not to install the linux graphics card driver of ATI. Everything may happen, for fear!

To avoid automatic upgrade, go to System --> preferences --> System --> Softwarer Updates to disable automatic upgrade, saving you trouble.

Due to the large number of installed machines recently, in order to avoid the need to re-start work during installation, workspace uses two disk zones. To avoid mail loss, Thunderbird is used and installed in/workspace, after configuration ~ /. Thunderbird: copy the directory to/workspace. I put it in/workspace/wei/tools/thunderbird, and then create a link ln-s/workspace/wei/tools/thunderbird /. thunderbird ~ /. Thunderbird. You only need to create a new link file next time.

In Linux, everything is possible no matter what the situation is!