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

[Tom Haddon]

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 16:00 -0700, ted wrote:
> 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. 

I think the most useful thing would be the output/contents
of /var/log/Xorg.0.log when it failed to start and dropped into a blank
screen. If you can get back to that point (or have the xorg log from
then), that'd be great - can you ctrl+alt+f1 and get to a terminal?

Thanks, Tom 

>  
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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