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ati radion 7000 card not recognized

Asked by Ernest Kudron

 I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and have a Stealth s60 that uses the ATI RADEON 7000 drivers. my system will not recognize card. my video is more of a picture slide show, I have lines in my display, and ati catalyst control center tells me I do not have an ATI card installed. All I want is to be able to watch simple video and use my Second Life account. right now I can not do either. Help P.S. I am not a computer Geek and All the directions and advice I got in the forums was useless or greek to me. It did not work if I could understand it or most of it I could not even understand.

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#1

the binary ati drivers do not support your graphics card at all, your graphics card is too old for that. you will first need to uninstall the binary drivers and ubuntu should start using the free and open source drivers instead which will do native graphics acceleration.

you may have to run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -pHigh xserver-xorg" to get the open source drivers to start working.

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Ernest Kudron (kudron2) said : 		#2

I don't understand why it is too old? The Clerk at Office Max told me it was the newest one in the store last month when I got it. Was I duped? Is Office Max (The only Computer supply store I can find in Brighton) a rip off? The reconfigure did allow me to up my graphics to 1024x768 from 800x600 but video is still very choppy and the vertical lines remain.

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#3

the ati radeon 7000 graphics card is 8 years old by now krash182, it came out in the year 2000 (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R100)

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#4

also you may want to disable desktop acceleration if it is enabled to try and get a smooth ride, system -> preferences -> appearance and on the visual effects tab

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Ernest Kudron (kudron2) said : 		#5

removed the NEW graphics card went back to the old one that was part of the computer, have no idea how to disable desktop acceleration or what it is. done trying to upgrade when the upgrades are worse than the old configuration. no second life but lines are gone and video is smooth. untill there is support for linux, (or it becomes user friendly to those of us who are not computer programming majors, I guess i'll just keep this the way it is and use MS Windows on rest of my compurters.

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Ernest Kudron (kudron2) said : 		#6

solved by removing the upgraded video card and retrning to oem card. problem not solved but my computer is semi functionable again. next time I will not upgrade unless I am using MS Operating System.

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Ernest Kudron (kudron2) said : 		#7

p.s. visual effects was already set to "none" if this is what you ment by disable desktop acceleration.

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D S (aalibreyellow) said : 		#8

I think it's worth noting that the Diamond Stealth s60 with ATI Radeon 7000 was sold by Office Depot as little as a year ago. I bought the PCI version of this card, didn't get a chance to use but just googled for it to see if it should work. So calling it old is a little harsh. The chipset may be mature...if anything this should mean it should be supported in some fashion by Linux and Ubuntu. My $0.02.

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jacobS (jacsalomon) said : 		#9

Krash182 please, report this in the list bug, I have the same problem and is a probably Defconf Xorg bug. The fglrx driver is not compatible with Radeon 7000 (not supported) need uninstall forced.

See my report bug and more info:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248002

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Ernest Kudron (kudron2) said : 		#10

all problems with this card fixed with release of 9.10. first distro it would work on.