Samsung R60 & Ubuntu or Mint = EH?

[FatRakoon]

I have now, dowloaded every single version of Ubuntu and Mint, in both 32Bit and 64Bit ISOs.

I have tested each and every single one, done the MD5 sums and they all check out as good and they all install just fine on my Testing Desktop PC.

However, what I am trying to get, is a Debian based distro that works and lets me install the ATI drivers.

For example

SuSE ( 11.4 32Bit ) and Mandriva ( 2010 Gnome 32Bit ) both install just fine, and have the ATI drivers in already, give me a full eye candied desktop etc, but they are not debian based.

Of all the Ubuntu based disks that I have tried NONE work. 10.1064Bit does get to the desktop but when I try clicking on any icon, the screen goes black.
I have tried installing directly and it does the same.

So, not one single version of ubuntu will work.

MiNT.

Mint 11 64Bit works great, its flawless in fact however when I try to install the ATI drivers, it says that they are for a different platform.

Debian Mint 32Bit works in both the XFCE and the Gnome distros however they dont allow any extras such as the ubuntu or MiNT repositories, if they do, I dont know how? - Im even failing to get that extra little icon that lets me search for hardware, that ubuntu and MiNT normally give, in the hope that they find the ATI chip, but no!

Anyone know what the hell Im on about?

If you do, then please help!

The ATI Chip is X1250 and nothing I do will get the ATI drivers running on a Debian based distro.

 

[Hairybudda]

Are you trying to use the proprietary drivers or the opensource ones? The proprietary drivers are distribution agnostic and the opensource driver is easy enough to git clone and make manually. If you're after the 'restricted hardware' thing that ubuntu and ubuntu mint have, it's an ubuntu thing and it's not even worth paying attention to.

 

[FatRakoon]

Im after absolutely anythign that will make allow me to at the very least play Dream Chess without waiting 30 days for the mouse cursor to eventually move.

I once managed to make 2 moves before I got sick of waiting... Sure im exaggerating on how bad the speed is, but justifiably so.

The "Ubuntu thing" I use for nvidia drivers and its perfect for that. To be fair, it does an acceptable job on the Desktop too, but on this junk laptop, it fails to find the ATI completely!

Only SuSE and Mandriva 2010 have been able to actually gfet the thing to do 3D... None of the others have.

Although as of this morning, I have actually managed to get ubuntu 10.10 32 Bit on.

Only issuue now is that I not only hate unity, I utterly despise it. I have no intention of staying with ubuntu unless I can get rid of this crap.

It looks to me like Im going to go back to Windows. Linux is getting far too stupid for its own good for me.