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I want to refer to the display bug I have with the opensource radeon driver. Alex Deucher commited 9 hours ago a bugfix for the annoying mouse cursor bug.  I compiled the driver and replaced the driver from repositories with the homebrew one. It seems like the problem has really been solved. I keep observe this driver-version for some days and hope the problem is gone now.

I wont keep back the way how I created the driver:

• git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
• ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
• make
• make install

During the «make»-step I had to add some additional developement packages like mesa-common-dev, xorg-dev and xserver-dev.

Afterwards the files radeon_drv.la, radeon_drv.so, ati_drv.la and ati_drv.so located under /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers were updated.

You could also try to replace only the binaries in the last-mentioned directory. I offer you the 4 files for download (No warranty!). http://combatx.net/temp/radeon.tar

Yesterday I did the jaunty upgrade on my eeepc 900. The icon umts network card is no longer recogized by the network manager.  I suppose it has to do with my manual configuration I did on Ubuntu 8.04 when I had to configure it by hand. My solution is quite simple: I will do a clean reinstall, because the system has gotten slow anyway with the time. -> Save the Home dir and I am ready to reinstall.

There are news to the last-mentioned display bug with the radeon driver.  Alex Deucher has begun to solve the problem and has already commited a first solution. Keep yourself up to date by subscribing the official bug in the freedesktop bugtracker or keep reading this blog

Yeah, today Canonical is releasing the new version of my favourite linux distribution Ubuntu. I already upgraded my computer at home to the release candidate and everything is working fine.  I like the new notification area which gives applications a standard interface to inform the user about things going on on his computer. I didn’t try the ext4-filesystem yet, but the benchmarks proof that its a little faster than ext3.

On my computer at work I did the upgrade to the RC aswell. Because AMD (formerly ATI) stopped supporting the fglrx driver for the Radeon x1300 I had to switch to the opensource driver “radeon” or “radeonhd”. These drivers corrupt my mouse cursor in a really annoying way, on some random vertical areas of the screen the cursor shows like a square.  Unfortunately I didnt find a solution for this yet and theres already a bug (#291053) opened in the launchpad.  I’ll keep you up to date if I find a solution.