Warren, I wouldn't recommend removing your graphics card, and not all motherboards have onboard video anyway. The open-source drivers work quite well for most purposes, much better for me then the proprietary ones in Hardy in fact. Just purge xorg-driver-fglrx and then install xserver-xorg-video-ati or -vesa failing -ati. I'll update the description with the workaround.
** Description changed: Using fglrx-installer 2:8.543-0ubuntu4, r3xx hardware such as Radeon 9500, Mobility Radeon 9700 and similar don't work They are not explicitly listed in the modaliases, so they will not be offered by Jockey. In the past, this hardware did work with the fglrx driver. Now the fglrx driver indicates memory errors when trying to load. Here is a snippet of what the memory error will look like: [ 1024.699204] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1169 MBytes. [ 1024.700616] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes [ 1024.700683] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads [ 1024.700757] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed + WORKAROUND: + 1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* + 2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon + 3. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati + 4. Restart. TEST CASE: 1. Install intrepid w/ r3xx hardware. 2. attempt to activate fglrx and reboot verifying unable to start X 3. Activate intrepid-proposed 4. update to new fglrx version, verify that X starts up properly -- r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
