Hi Brian,
Thanks for the tip.
I just downloaded and had a bash.. No joy from the live CD, (tried
fglrx as well) so I went for broke, shrunk an existing partition and
installed intrepid.
After a bit of stuffing about (mainly looking at all the new
"pretties" in intrepid!) I can report resounding success! thanks and
kudos to all who have been working on the ati/radeon driver.
I first tried the Monitor Resolution Settings thingo but I couldn't
figure out how to make it detect things so I went back to my old
tricks fiddling with xrandr with a bog-stock xorg.conf.
My path to nirvana:
Add this to the "Screen" section in xorg.conf: (I run a 19" VGA + 21"
DVI from a docking station on a T42 Thinkpad)
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1400x1050"
Virtual 2880 1200
EndSubSection
# xrandr
<lots of stuff>
<think think>
# xrandr --output LVDS --off
# xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024
# xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1600x1200 --pos 1280x0
And it WORKED! I am most most most chuffed, no more Hardy with
backported feisty ati build for this little black duck.
Of course desktop effects dont work and there is still the small
annoying green flicker on very dark images on the DVI monitor but from
all I have read this is a hardware problem with this card. Something
to do with the DVI port on the dock not really being supposed to be
used for games like this.
I then went back to the "Monitor Resolution Settings" thingo and was
astounded to see the attached. I would now suspect that I could have
done this point and click but am not quite game to try just yet.. :)
Let me know if you want me to add all this info to the bugtracker
thing but suffice to say I would count this one as stomped, squished,
mashed up and obliterated. The only problem of course now is that I
have no reason to buy a T61 with the nvidia card in it...
Andrew
2008/8/15 Brian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. In the development cycle for Intrepid there have been some vast
> improvements in the open source ati video driver and we could use your
> help testing them. Could you please download the latest Alpha CD image
> of Intrepid and test this particular bug just using the Live CD? You
> can find the latest image at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . Your
> testing can help make Ubuntu and the open source ati driver even better!
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>
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> [regression] after recent upgrade to 6.7.192-4ubuntu1 dual-head support is
> broken
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141161
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