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Gutsy Gibbon + Radeon Mobility X1400

( Advanced and How To and Linux )

Compiz Fusion on a Radeon Mobility X1400 graphics card? Hell yeah!
Oh, driver hell. Proprietary drivers are the bane of Linux’s existence, as any Linux user with a current ATI graphics card can tell you. I have a Lenovo Z61m on which I’d like to install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, but good luck — [...]

apt-get Package Status Codes

If you’re a debian user (this includes all of you Ubuntu folks!), then you may be familiar with the strangeness of status codes for dpkg -l. For example, let’s say you install postfix:

sudo apt-get install postfix

We can look at the package list with dpkg -l. Let’s take a look at postfix:

$ dpkg -l [...]