I second what Pavel Rojtberg says; Gutsy is meant to be the development branch of Ubuntu so why not use the latest fglrx (as of this moment) 8.37.6 ?
If you follow the Assigned To link above to the Debian bug database [1] you find that ATI (I _think_ it's ATI, there seems to be zero branding however) has this reported [2] and fixed in 8.37.6 Here is a description of how to install it (which is easy enough but not _that_ easy) >From this page [3] download the latest binaries [4], yes! binaries... oooh >evil. Copy to /usr/share/ati You need a couple of debian packages sudo apt-get install debhelper sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev Then... sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy Now you should have... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/ati$ ls -l *.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3318892 2007-06-06 23:41 fglrx-amdcccle_8.37.6-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912460 2007-06-06 23:41 fglrx-kernel-source_8.37.6-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5780050 2007-06-06 23:41 xorg-driver-fglrx_8.37.6-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40366 2007-06-06 23:41 xorg-driver-fglrx-dev_8.37.6-1_i386.deb So... sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.37.6-1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-source_8.37.6-1_i386.deb Now install module assistant to help you build the kernel module; install the kernel headers if you don't have them by now (you mean to say you don't have them by now?!) sudo apt-get install module-assistant sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic Delete the useless fglrx stuff that linux-restricted-modules installs - if there's a better more non-lethal way please let me know... sudo rm -rf /lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.22-6-generic/fglrx Now close all package managers and go to /usr/src then sudo module-assistant Choose PREPARE, choose SELECT, choose fglrx-kernel and then GET, BUILD and INSTALL - keep hitting esc until you get to the command line again and then sudo depmod -a Reboot and enjoy ps: If I skipped any steps please fill them in - thanks! 1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420174 2: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609 3: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html 4: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run -- [gutsy][regression][fglrx] X doesn't start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115188 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
