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So, ATI bit me in the ass again. I decided to update from Feisty to Gutsy today, and my working just fine, direct rendering ATI setup went kablooey. There was apparently some customized XGL stuff in Feisty (aka- hacks), that was corrected in Gutsy, but led to this issue here because of the malformed configs from Feisty. Make sense? No? Good, that means you’re paying attention.

Anyway. I just finished a clean install to a drive my roommate had given me. Installed, as per normal, and unlike Feisty everything just worked well once I enabled the restricted driver. So, hurrah.

Now to copy the important stuff from my home directory. And skip installing the MS Core fonts. This looks a lot better. I’ll just cram that junk into wine.

Right here in River City. Apprater.

For the nobody that looks at this blog, I apologize that the new link has malformed the nav box on the left. I’ll fix it soonish.

Seriously though, this is a lot of fun. Having a non-monolithic OS is heaps of good stuff. Aside from some really aggravating issues with my bluetooth headset, and some video driver juggling, it’s been great. I’ve been playing my older games under wine. No Metal Fatigue though, it’s apparently doomed to not work right anywhere. I can do all kinds of crazy stuff to pretty up the desktop, the Add in Add/Remove Software isn’t a sad joke, and everything is running at least 50% smoother than my XP install.