After Upgrade To 10.4, all display items appear washed out.

If you login as a different user is it the same?

Can you give the outpt of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 17:20 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:

Only one user on the system. I can create one if it will help.

> sudo lshw -C display
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450]
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:29 memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable)
memory:feaf0000-feafffff ioport:c000(size=256)
memory:feac0000-feadffff(prefetchable)

tomdean

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 04:33 +0000, tomdean wrote:
The change in display was NOT the result of any hardware or user
changes.

The ONLY change to the system was to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 when
prompted by the upgrade manager.

I believe the change in display is due to the installation of themes.

tomdean

Yes but the card you are using is using the proprietary driver which gives a kernel module. Sometimes when upgrades occur the kernel module for the driver doesn't get upgraded (or upgraded properly) as th kernel gets upgraded.

You are currently using the open source radeon driver but ATi are still supporting the chip with their closed source driver which you can re-install to get a better display.

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:49 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #112488 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/112488

> You are currently using the open source radeon driver but ATi are still
> supporting the chip with their closed source driver which you can re-
> install to get a better display.
>
How do I get/install the driver? I did not install a closed source
driver in 9.10.

tomdean

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:49 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #112488 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/112488
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Yes but the card you are using is using the proprietary driver which
> gives a kernel module. Sometimes when upgrades occur the kernel module
> for the driver doesn't get upgraded (or upgraded properly) as th kernel
> gets upgraded.
>
> You are currently using the open source radeon driver but ATi are still
> supporting the chip with their closed source driver which you can re-
> install to get a better display.
>
Is this driver
   xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd 1.3.0-2
                   X.Org X server - AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver

The packages I have installed are
  xserver-xorg-video-radeon
  xserver-xorg-video-ati

tomdean

Activate the FGLRX driver

System->Administration->Hardware Drivers