hey, i am interested in using ubuntu (and obviously i am a noob at this )
but looking at the graphical interface, i kinda worried that my system can't do the decent job running it, so can all the sifu here give any guidance?
my system specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512MB PC133 SDRAM
128MB ATI RADEON 9600SE

and i have 2 hdd in my system (WinXP installed on a 20GB HDD, i am planning to do dual-boot by installing Ubuntu on another 40GB HDD)

so can it be done? thanks

it's supported

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Added on December 1, 2007, 4:27 pmok, trouble's here
managed to install ubuntu onto my system
but the desktop effect cannot be activated, worse still is that not even the resolution can be changed, stuck with 800x600 resolution
tried to change to 1280x1024 monitor and fglrx driver (both open source and proprietary tried) but after restart everything reset by itself to generic vesa driver and plug and play monitor


This post has been edited by cyew86: Dec 1 2007, 05:43 PM

even if i use open source drive, it wud still run at low graphic mode
think ATI sux on Ubuntu, or another way round, whatever

tried some solutions found online, after reboot, voila, 1280x1024 resolution, but stuck at login screen. kept entering the username and password but the screen will go blank for a second and return back to the login screen after awhile, reformatted and using windows now, give up

This post has been edited by cyew86: Dec 2 2007, 02:05 PM

used Envy and solved the problem too
but now dunno why i cant enable desktop effect even with the proprietary driver

did that and restarted my system, got even worse, had to run in low graphic mode and can't use any other driver except the VESA generic driver, even after i changed back to fglrx and restarted, it kept changing back to VESA the weird thing is in the restricted driver manager, they wrote there the proprietary driver was in use and enabled gave up, try ubuntu when i change my rig next time, and have to make sure i dun buy ATI for my next system

no prob, not ur fault, i found that method u mentioned in another support site guess just my old 6-year old system's fault