ATI Raaaeeg
Okay, my new computer works great and I am very happy with it. However I am not so happy with ATI.
The underlying graphics core of Linux is called X, and they just released a new major version that you have to compile new graphics drivers for. ATI manages its own closed-source drivers and, for their new version, they declared the vast majority of their own cards currently in use as 'legacy' and only added support for very specific, very new cards. Put another way: I have a brand new computer which I got YESTERDAY and ATI is not supporting the graphics card inside. This means I cannot use any Linux distro which uses the newest X, which means I cannot use the newest Ubuntu, for example. (I tried, it blackscreens.) (Oh and BTW it's an onboard card because of the ultra-small form factor, that is, I can't replace it even if I had any money left over.)
Complicating the problem is that Ubuntu currently offers two versions, and the older one is one kernel version too old and doesn't have the wifi driver I need. Fortunately, the Crunchbang variation of Ubuntu is somewhere between the two and works fine, although with my external wifi instead of the internal one. (Maybe I can hack that into working tonight.)
EDIT: here are some magnified screencaps of the character tiles I've been working on for my hypothetical game:
And a normal-size of Gaerinn's full pic:
The underlying graphics core of Linux is called X, and they just released a new major version that you have to compile new graphics drivers for. ATI manages its own closed-source drivers and, for their new version, they declared the vast majority of their own cards currently in use as 'legacy' and only added support for very specific, very new cards. Put another way: I have a brand new computer which I got YESTERDAY and ATI is not supporting the graphics card inside. This means I cannot use any Linux distro which uses the newest X, which means I cannot use the newest Ubuntu, for example. (I tried, it blackscreens.) (Oh and BTW it's an onboard card because of the ultra-small form factor, that is, I can't replace it even if I had any money left over.)
Complicating the problem is that Ubuntu currently offers two versions, and the older one is one kernel version too old and doesn't have the wifi driver I need. Fortunately, the Crunchbang variation of Ubuntu is somewhere between the two and works fine, although with my external wifi instead of the internal one. (Maybe I can hack that into working tonight.)
EDIT: here are some magnified screencaps of the character tiles I've been working on for my hypothetical game:
And a normal-size of Gaerinn's full pic: