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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

Ati driver will not activate ubuntu 9.10

Asked by Geir

Hi
I have upgraded to the latest Ubuntu vesion, Using Gnome. now I have no sound, the compiz features are not working, and my openoffice is very "shoppy" when I scroll up or down documents.

When I go to "hardware drivers" there is a propriary driver FGLRX for ati/amd , (I have such a card) but it is impossible to activate. I give password etc, but nothing happens..

Am I alone with this problem?
Will there be some solution to this problem in the near future?
Will there be an "automatic update" for me to fix this with other updates?
As I'm not so good with fine-tuning the computer-programs myself, should I give up and move back to Vista?

I really liked ubundtu before I upgraded it, it worked then..
with regards
Geir Aurdal

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Carlos Andrés Zambrano (czam) (carlos.zambrano) said : 		#1

You should try with EnvyNG it help you to install the ATI driver

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

Download EnvyNG, install en check again if yout ATI card is working...

CarlosZ (czam)

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Johan van der Lingen (johanlingen-hotmail) said : 		#2

please also provide the type of your graphics card

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Geir (aurdalgeir) said : 		#3

Okey.
I've tried to activate the ATI-driver via EnvyNG and it says that it is activated, but it is not working.
Ubuntus "Hardware drivers" - program says that it is not activated.

...so according to EnvyNG I have 8-661-0Ubuntu1 enabled....but it is not working well...
My graphic card is: Radeon HD 3400

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Geir (aurdalgeir) said : 		#4

Now I've found something interesting.
I ran EnvyNG in text-mode and came up with this:

Error:
EnvyNG has detected that the headers for
your kernel are missing and cannot be installed

I think the installed headers are 2.6.31-14.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Can you give the output of:

lspci | grep vga

ATi support still sucks in Linux but is slowly getting better

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Geir (aurdalgeir) said : 		#6

lspci | grep vga
...gives nothing.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

sudo lshw -C display

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Geir (aurdalgeir) said : 		#8

sudo lshw -C display:

*-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:c0000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) ioport:5000(size=256) memory:d2300000-d230ffff memory:d2320000-d233ffff(prefetchable)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

Someone has suggested this:
http://www.paulocabido.com/ubuntu/ati-mobility-radeon-hd-3400-series-jaunty-xorg-and-compiz/

Did you run:

sudo aticonfig --initial

Once you got the ati driver installed?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#10

According to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/355495

Could also try:

sudo mv /etc/ati/amdpcsdb /etc/ati/amdpcsdb_old
sudo aticonfig --initlal -f --overlay-type=Xv
sudo aticonfig --set-pcs-str="DDX,EnableRandr12,FALSE"
ssudo aticonfig --dtop=horizontal

As well as other suggestions in the bug

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Geir (aurdalgeir) said : 		#11

Can't get enything of that to work :/

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Geir (aurdalgeir) said : 		#12

Okey, it works now.
I discovered that I've been using an old linux-kernel, so when I tried the new one everything worked!

Thanks for all the quick answers!
Regards
Geir