Public bug reported: I've tried to run an ATI Radeon 5770 based video card on my x64 10.04 box (up to date as of Sept 14). I've even tried using the 10.8 Catalyst (was released a few weeks back.. ~late Aug 2010). Thus far the very best performance I can get is what I'd get using the vesa X11 driver (only I was explicitly using fglrx).
I gave the x64 10.10 beta a whirl, but didn't even get anything coming up on my display. I'm aware I could probably feed in some command-line option on boot and set up on ghetto-graphics. I didn't bother with that. I've also tried running this card in parallel with a Radeon HD 2600. When doing that, the ATI Catalyist Center reports the 5770 as an "Unknown Device"... <sarcasm> Awesome </sarcasm> I'm concerned in that the 5770 is growing in popularity (for example it's now common place in a few lines of Apple machines). I've observed some forums threads with some fairly old discussion on this issue. Perhaps a 'solution' could entail outright declaring that it's an unsupported card until further notice. If that's opted for, there should be a hook or something in grub2 that displays a warning message to users... As that's a lot more graceful than a completely blank screen. I can only hope my take on this whole situation is incorrect, but sadly, I've spent many hours on this. I think the 5770 stands to make 10.10 not look so great. Hopefully it's an isolated case? Thanks gang, keep up the awesome work! <3 ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: 5770 ati radeon xorg ** Summary changed: - ATI Radeon 5770 Functioning Poorly + ATI Radeon 5770 Very Poorly Supported -- ATI Radeon 5770 Very Poorly Supported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637880 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs