Well, it seems that after the latest Hardy update, something finaly happens if I try to activate fglrx with the Ubuntu driver manager and reboot, , i.e. X seems to try to use fglrx, fails and ask me to configure my video card and screen. If I still select fglrx, then the login screen will appears and I'll be able to login in Ubuntu, but with a very low resolution, using what seems to be a generic driver (i.e. not the radeon one).
All this leads me to believe that there is some incompatibility between the fglrx driver and Ubuntu Harty, which could be more specifically related to a problem with DRI initialization. I get in /var/log/Xorg.0.log there is this message: DRI initialization failed! ** Description changed: Binary package hint: xorg-driver-fglrx I'm using Ubuntu Hardy (Beta - freshly updated) and the proprietary fglrx driver with ATI Xpress 200M card (on a Compaq Presario V2610CA laptop) is not working, after various (I mean *a lot*, really) tests, with various configuration, either with the driver provided in the package available in the Ubuntu repositories (using the Ubuntu driver - manager) or with the driver provided by ATI (8.476 version and previous - one). + manager), with the driver provided by AMD/ATI (8.476 version and + previous one) and with EnvyNG. - The fglrx driver was working right with Gutsy (7.10) prior to my upgrade - to Hardy, + *One thing is sure": the fglrx driver was working right with Gutsy + (7.10) prior to my upgrade to Hardy, In any case, the radeon open source driver seems to always take over, even if the xorg.conf file is set to use fglrx. The Ubuntu driver manager reports that the driver is active, but unused (after a complete system reboot). I've tried blacklisting radeon and forcing use of fglrx, without any success. Here's what I always get with fglrxinfo: $ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2) Obviously, OpenGl strings should report that the ATI proprietary driver is used, which is what I set in the Restricted driver manager. *Edited to precise that it's a fglrx problem, not a compiz one -- Hardy: fglrx not working for ATI card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215702 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
