Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: restricted-manager
My Dell Inspiron 1501 has a Radeon Xpress 200M graphics card [1] and the
restricted driver manager informs me that the proprietary ATI driver
(fglrx) is needed for 3D graphics. Since getting the laptop I have tried
both the free and proprietary drivers to get accelerated 3D without
success. However a Mandriva bootable USB drive gets it working straight
away. I copied the contents of the graphics card device section from the
Mandriva system's xorg.conf [2] to my Ubuntu xorg.conf and now have
accelerated 3D. The restricted manager should sort this out
automatically upon driver installation, as the proprietary driver
recommended by the tool actually performs worse than the default free
driver without these options. (I am not sure which combination of
options is actually needed, but I am willing to try any suggested
combinations to narrow it down)
[1] Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a37
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 SMBus (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address
Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress
200M]
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN
Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
08:01.0 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822
SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
[2] Working xorg.conf graphics device section:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200M (RS482)"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DPMS"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000000"
Option "HSync2" "unspecified"
Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
Option "TVColorAdj" "0"
Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "NoTV" "yes"
Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
EndSection
** Affects: restricted-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Extra options needed for 3D on Inspiron 1501
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130025
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