Friends... I'm a newbee... and I have some simple questions. I'm using the fglrx driver with a ATI Radeon FireGL Mobility card on an IBM Thinkpad T42.
I want to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 and I am assuming that I need to go back to the opensource driver before I upgrade, else a bug in the upgrade process will cause the process to fault. Is that right? >From Synaptic I removed the xorg-driver-fglrx and rebooted. This came up in low res mode with a VESA driver. I didn't know where to go from there to load and config the opensource driver so I went back into Synaptic and reinstalled the flgrx driver. How do I remove the fglrx and install and config the opensource driver? Thanks for bearing with me. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:15 AM, shanakadu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have tried your suggestion, and for my computer it didn´t work , well > it´s > "work", but without 3d hardware accelaration - when i say without 3d > hardware accelarion i means than 3D games, 3d programs the work really > slow. > Fglrx is the official driver from ATI , so i think we need to focus in it > for resolv it, and this bug it´s about it.,that is all, > > Thanks ,Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009. > > P.D.: I will use OSS solution if it worked for me . > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:32 PM, David Taylor > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > It may just be my lack of knowledge but how come KWin's 3d desktop's > > effects work well with the OSS drivers? > > > > -- > > r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839] > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408 > > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > > of a duplicate bug. > > > > Status in AMD fglrx video driver: Triaged > > Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released > > Status in Update Manager: Invalid > > Status in "fglrx-installer" source package in Ubuntu: Triaged > > Status in "update-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released > > Status in fglrx-installer in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Committed > > Status in update-manager in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released > > Status in fglrx-installer in Ubuntu Jaunty: Triaged > > Status in update-manager in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released > > > > Bug description: > > Using fglrx-installer 2:8.543-0ubuntu4, r3xx hardware such as Radeon > 9500, > > Mobility Radeon 9700 and similar don't work > > > > They are not explicitly listed in the modaliases, so they will not be > > offered by Jockey. In the past, this hardware did work with the fglrx > > driver. Now the fglrx driver indicates memory errors when trying to > load. > > > > Here is a snippet of what the memory error will look like: > > [ 1024.699204] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: > > 1169 MBytes. > > [ 1024.700616] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes > > [ 1024.700683] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when > > allocating device heads > > [ 1024.700757] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices > > failed > > > > WORKAROUND: > > You'll need to completely remove the proprietary driver and [re]install > the > > open-source driver. As a plus, many users report improved performance > with > > the open-source drivers in Intrepid versus ATI's fglrx in Hardy for 2D > > purposes such as normal desktop use and video playback. > > 1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* > > 2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati > > xserver-xorg-video-radeon > > 3. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati > > 4. Restart. > > > > TEST CASE: > > 1. Install intrepid w/ r3xx hardware. > > 2. attempt to activate fglrx and reboot verifying unable to start X > > 3. Activate intrepid-proposed > > 4. update to new fglrx version, verify that X starts up properly > > > > > -- > Aitor Juan Martín García > Consultor SAP > Tlf: 606746626 > aitor.martingarcia # gmail dot com > > -- > r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839] > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
