@ Christopher Penalver: Why are you so very determined to make this bug's description LESS useful for users?
I have a FirePro V5700 [RV730] which is affected by this. The nomenclature "HD2000-4000" doesn't identify this card at all. The chip information is vastly more useful in identifying whether a given card is likely to be affected, yet you insist on deleting it even after I expanded the wording to document the interesting ambiguity of the FireStreams. I'll put my revised wording in my comment here, since you deleted it from the description: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: It is mostly agreed that all AMD cards based on R(V)6x0 and R(V)7x0 chips are affected - if your board's chip is a member of these families, you should consider this bug report to most likely apply to you. This includes some FirePro/FireGL/FireStream products as well as certain Radeon HD5x00 mobility parts which are rebadged Radeon HD4x00 parts. If unsure, please consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units. However there seems to be some question surrounding some FireStream parts containing R7xx chips, which may still be supported by the main Catalyst driver releases according to AMD's website, though bug 1075035 contains as yet inconclusive evidence counter to this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As for your reluctance to refer to Wikipedia: if AMD actually provided an official source thsat would be great. Since they don't bother, Wikipedia is a good second best. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058040 Title: fglrx-installer not working with HD2000-4000 "legacy" cards in Quantal Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: New Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Following the AMD decision to change to a new driver support model for Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 series cards for the legacy 12.6 driver as per http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages /legacy-radeon_linux.aspx , fglrx-installer installs non-working drivers for users of these cards. I suggest the addition of an fglrx-legacy package to install the AMD legacy drivers for users with older cards or patch the current code base for use with these cards. One of the outstanding issues for addressing this bug is AMD currently does not plan to support XServer 1.13 (for Ubuntu the package is xserver-xorg-core) for the legacy 12.6 driver, which Quantal uses: apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-core: Installed: 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6 Candidate: 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6 Version table: *** 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Output for fglrx 9.00 [1]: # lspci|grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780L [Radeon HD 3000] # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/3.5.0-15-generic/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko): No such device # dmesg|tail -n3 [ 6785.693869] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 7132 MBytes. [ 6785.694089] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* No supported display adapters were found [ 6785.694091] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed # dpkg --list|grep fglrx ii fglrx 2:9.000-0ubuntu1 amd64 Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:9.000-0ubuntu1 amd64 Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics accelerators [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer- updates/+bug/1032672/comments/34 !!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!! The following workaround has produced mixed results and left some users with temporarily broken systems. It is not recommended for production systems or novice users that are not comfortable with basic console/non-GUI recovery. USE AT OWN RISK. WORKAROUND: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install fglrx-legacy This workaround will downgrade X to 1.12 and install the AMD legacy fglrx 8.97 (Catalyst 12.6). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1058040/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
