Ubuntu

ATI Radeon 2600 XT

Asked by Man1aC

Hi!
I have a problem with my ATI graphic card. I have Gutsy and I want to use more advanced graphics option since I couldn't in Feisty. The problem is when I write lspci -nn | grep VGA in the terminal this message is showed:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:9588].
I tampered a little with drivers, but I couldn't do any good(had to restart quite a times cause and change the xorg.conf because the graphic interface wouldn't show.
Now I have installed Envy and hit the manual install drivers button and it downloaded latest drivers(8.43 I think), and it asked me if I want to change the xorg.conf, but I don't know what will happen if I do so. Please help. Thnx.

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Best Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#1

Hi !

Go ahead !

the recent ATI cards are not well supported by the free driver, and the restricted driver in the ubuntu repository is quite old.

Tell me if you encounter any problem

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Man1aC (p1hclan) said : 		#2

Thanks. I restarted comp and it worked a charm. It informed me that restricted drivers are in use, but it works. But I still have a problem, when I typed compiz in terminal I got this:
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:9588 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#3

What do you think is a problem ?

Seems nice to me...

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Man1aC (p1hclan) said : 		#4

Don't know. The some options of the compiz are working, but I can't get compizconfig manger opened. Thanks anyway.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#5

have you installed compizconfig-settings-manager ?

if not, do it, and just enter in the terminal ccsm

hope that helps

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Man1aC (p1hclan) said : 		#6

I reinstalled ccsm. IT works finally! Thanks for all your help.

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Man1aC (p1hclan) said : 		#7

Thanks Olivier, that solved my question.