Help before I throw in the Ubuntu towel

[Lysander]

I've more or less had it with this now. I've been trying for days to get an older ATI driver [8.3] installed with no luck. No-one has been able to tell me how to do it, the restricted manager can't see the driver and using the help sections on the Ubuntu forums website always cedes problems. There must be a simple way of doing this.

Can anyone tell me how to install an older ATI driver? The latest would be no problem since I'd just use EnvyNG. But an older one? No-one seems to know.

 

[Lysander]

Because I use HDMI on this monitor and the newer ATI drivers have HDMI scaling problems with anything past 8.3 at the moment.

 

[Lysander]

Ugh that's it, I've totally given up. Heaven forbid you try to get a working driver for a new graphics card.

I tried a workaround by installing the 8.6 and then trying to fix the problem within the driver. Didn't even get that far. The system rebooted, I then enabled the driver through the restricted driver panel, rebooted again and the screen was fixed at 800x600 - with no higher options. Fine, so I disabled it and reinstalled the 8.6 drivers... on reboot I just got a white screen, nothing else.

My experience with these drivers has been terrible. It's far better to use Windows, at least then the drivers have been written properly.

 

[Lysander]

Its not linux or Ubuntu at fault here, its your GFX card manufacturer. cant you change to DVI?

I know it's not the fault of Ubuntu, my point was that at least with Windows you have drivers that are easier to install and work better. That may be crap on the part of ATI, but the point still stands no matter how little I may like it.

I could go to using DVI yes, but now with nothing but a white screen to greet me in Ubuntu and no way of knowing how to change that apart from reinstalling, I may just delete the partition.