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problems w/ hardy xorg.conf and ati radeon hd 2600

Asked by IKON

Hi I recently installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 64-bit on to my new notebook I just built. It looks to be that xorg.conf is not configure properly. I'm not sure what to do next, I tried the command sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg that does not work it just ask me for the resolution on the machine. When Ubuntu does support my card will they push it thought the updates and will it work after restarting or typing startx or will I have to do something special?

specs on the machine
MSI MS-171A86-002
ATI Radeon HD 2600 (ATI Radeon M76 512MB)
AMD TURION 64 X2 TL-66
Kingston KVR667D2S5/2G R
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
Western Digital HD-WD2500BEVS (triple boot of Windows Vista Business 64-bit, Fedora core 8 64-bit, Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 64-bit)

p.s.
I'm somewhat of a newbie, but i do know a little about linux-ubuntu
If there is an easy tutorial I'm willing to try it.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#1

Hi !

You should install the radeonhd driver

I guess you know that Hardy is a development version and therefore quite unstable ??

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IKON (bio-tech-support) said : 		#2

I reinstalled and went back to gusty, b/c envy would not work on hardy. Yes I know that hardy is in testing and unstable I just like bleeding edge stuff. Here are the commands I'm going to try I when gusty is installed and updated.

#wget http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.4-0ubuntu4_all.deb
#dpkg -i envy_0.9.4-0ubuntu4_all.deb
#apt-get install -f
su
envy -t

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#3

There is a newer version of envy http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/ubuntu/envy_0.9.9-0ubuntu1_all.deb

download it graphically, and install it with Gdebi, it will handle the dependancies for you. Launch it through the Application menu.

No need here to bother with command line, it's even more complicated.

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IKON (bio-tech-support) said : 		#4

I don't have a choice. I dont have a gui interface just command lines, but i will try the new verison.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#5

OK :-)

If you want open bleeding edge, you should try the new radeonhd driver that you can grab here https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive

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IKON (bio-tech-support) said : 		#6

so would I just wget that link. Sorry that's the newbie side of me kicking in.

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Best Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#7

Are you still under hardy ?

because I think after thinking about it that it won't work under gutsy.

Never mind. to install envy, enter the following commands :

wget 'http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/ubuntu/envy_0.9.9-0ubuntu1_all.deb'
sudo dpkg -i envy_0.9.9-0ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo envy -t

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IKON (bio-tech-support) said : 		#8

i installed gusty but i can easily go back to hardy

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IKON (bio-tech-support) said : 		#9

I did what you said and I got it work you're the best; know I have an all white screen with just the mouse curser to mess around with. Any ideas?

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#10

Stick with gutsy. Before installing envy, you may try to install the radeonhd driver. enter :

wget 'http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10662946/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.0.0+git20071130-0ubuntu0tv_i386.deb'
sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.0.0+git20071130-0ubuntu0tv_i386.deb

Tell me if you get errors

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IKON (bio-tech-support) said : 		#11

I logged in using gnome failsafe I can see the gui theres no place like home =)

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IKON (bio-tech-support) said : 		#12

Thanks Olivier, that solved my question.