I did some other experimentations and now, I have a fully functional fglrx driver.
Here's what fxglrxinfo reports now: OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series OpenGL version string: 2.1.7412 Release I'll explain what I did and what conclusions I can draw with respect to this bug report (and for the records!): ***Part. 1 is required only to get Desktop effects (Compiz) to work*** 1. I installed the fglrx driver using Ubuntu driver manager (so with packages from Ubuntu repos), but I have commented out fglrx in the file /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common to make sure that this particular version of the driver won't load; 2. I installed the fglrx driver downloaded from AMD/ATI site (version 8.476 ; see http://ati.de/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html) using the installer script (I tried to install it using packages built with the automated building script, but it didn't work, i.e. building package worked, but the driver was not working) 3. In order to have fglrxinfo reports ATI stuff (and get 3d acceleration), I issued theses commands (I have to do it after each reboot or to put them in an init.d script executed before GDM executes): insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko modprobe fglrx Now, here are my conclusions so far: 1. There's a package (deb) building problem for this driver on Ubuntu Hardy: This conclusion is related to the fact that, neither packages from Ubuntu repos nor the ones build with the AMD/ATI script will work. The only time this driver is working is when it is installed using the installation script provided by AMD/ATI. 2. The problem has nothing to do with a badly configured xorg.conf file: My numerous tests shows that the same xorg.conf referring to the fglrx driver won't work when the driver is installed via Ubuntu or AMD/ATI packages, but will work when the driver is installed with the AMD/ATI script. ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- 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
