I'm running ubuntu 16.04, and I have a RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] graphics card. It's fine, except that when I play video it usually locks up Ubuntu.
I can SSH in at this point and and kill the video player but it makes no difference; it's like it's done something to the window manager. Samba, virtualbox etc are all still running fine but I have to power cycle the box if I'm to do anything visually again; the mouse and keyboard do nothing (so no control-alt-f1).
I suppose I'll have to buy a graphics card which is more compatible with this version of Ubuntu (I understand some sort of decision was taken where this card will never be supported properly on recent versions of Ubuntu despite not being anywhere near as old as other hardware I'm happily running ubuntu) but I was wondering if there was some way of preventing whatever it is that's crashing from being run; ie, is there some sort of software emulation of video which doesn't crash? I don't mind if the result would be unusably slow as I don't watch video on this box, but it would be nice to not have to reboot if I accidentally double click on a video file. Oddly, video never crashes when run from a browser.