@Dirk Heinricks: Buying intel because they have the best open-source driver support would be a good idea... if Intel cards weren't so darn wimpy :-(
I don't really understand why AMD and Nvidia keep releasing their drivers as proprietary anyway, it's not as though doing it that way lets them make more money. It just doesn't make any sense. Anyhoo... Hmm... according to http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages/legacy- radeon_linux.aspx they only say that they won't develop the drivers any more feature-wise. They do say that they'll continue to release "critical updates", which ought to include upgrading to allow for the latest X server. Maybe they just haven't gotten around to it yet, even though they've upgraded their more recent drivers, but if that page is anything to go by there's still a good chance they might update the legacy driver eventually or even soon. But, in the meantime, the only workaround I see is downgrading to an older version of X which is supported by the legacy driver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058040 Title: fglrx-installer does not support HD2000-4000 "legacy" cards Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Following the AMD decision to drop support for older hardware fglrx- installer will install non-working drivers for some users. I suggest the addition of an fglrx-legacy package to install the AMD legacy drivers for users with older cards. Output for fglrx 9.00 [1]: # lspci|grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780L [Radeon HD 3000] # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/3.5.0-15-generic/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko): No such device # dmesg|tail -n3 [ 6785.693869] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 7132 MBytes. [ 6785.694089] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* No supported display adapters were found [ 6785.694091] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed # dpkg --list|grep fglrx ii fglrx 2:9.000-0ubuntu1 amd64 Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:9.000-0ubuntu1 amd64 Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics accelerators [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer- updates/+bug/1032672/comments/34 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1058040/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
