James, it appears you have the "good fortune" to be breaking new ground - this card is relatively unknown. For example, according to [1], there "is currently not enough adequate information about this model" and there are known problems getting full benefits from the related card [2].
As for detecting the card programmatically, there is nothing useful that I can see in the dmidecode output; lspci output has 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 71d4 (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 20a4 which is not encouraging, as it suggests that more than just adding some detection code to a script or two: The OS needs to know more about the card. Unfortunately, a) this is beyond my ken and b) I'm no longer able to triage, so there isn't much more I can do. What I do is mark the report as confirmed, change the description appropriately, and direct it to what I think will be the right package. Appropriate triagers/QA/devs will have to take it from there. [1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_FireGL_V5250 [2] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_FireGL_V5200 -- Thinkpad T60p ati 5250 video card not "completly" detected; result is powerstate not lowered when on battery power https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107805 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs