[sf-lug] ATI Radeon X1200 Series, Ubuntu and Ted

[ted]

Hi Gang,

I am at about wits end here.  Sorry if this is a bit of a journal but, I
am not a non-techey Ubuntu user, I do know my way around a bit, but talk
in small words.

I never got my ATI device driver working in 7.10 64 bit.  Frustrated but
I lived with it.  However at times the computer would come to a full
halt crash, I mean total system freeze. So I decided to try out 8.04 32
bit.  By out of the box it was able to configure my ATI accelerated
device driver and compiz was (finally) working!  I said that great! This
weekend, I said well maybe the 8.04 64 bit version would also work.  So
I downloaded it, and installed it and no dice, compiz and the driver was
not working.  I would use the Hardware Drivers utility to click on
"enabled" and it would install "ATI Accelerated graphics driver" I would
reboot, and before my logon screen it would go blank and hang.  I played
around quite a bit and read Ubuntuforums to no avail.  I tried going
back to the 32 bit version and it didn't manage to install properly.
So, I reinstalled the 64 bit version, and played around with it some
more.  At this point I am up and running w/o the graphics accelerator
driver, and w/o compiz installed.  It books fine, but I do want this
thing to work like its supposed to.  

Thanks in advance,

Ted

So here is what I got under the hood:
AMD Athlon 64 5600+ Windsor 2.8GHz 
Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 
A-DATA 4GB DDR2 800

and...

ted at unrecognized:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon
X1200 Series]
ted at unrecognized:~$ 

And... my current xorg.conf:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection


And xorg.conf when it was not working:


Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
        Defaultdepth    24
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "VideoOverlay"  "on"
        Option          "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        Driver          "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
  screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option          "Composite"     "Enable"
EndSection