You have been subscribed to a public bug: In Ubuntu 12.04, the switchable graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5xxx Series don't work. It was working previously with the catalyst driver from the ATI website in Ubuntu 11.10 or 11.04 (I don't remember).
With the free dirver, Intel and ATI cards are running together. We can't choose one of them nor power off the second one. Thus the battery of the laptop dies quickly. Using jockey to install the "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver", there isn't error during the installation process, but the 3D does not work after reboot: $ fglrxinfo X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString) Serial number of failed request: 12 Current serial number in output stream: 12 $ fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString) Serial number of failed request: 12 Current serial number in output stream: 12 If I choose "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates)", the installation failes: 2012-04-26 17:26:57,579 WARNING: /sys/module/fglrx_updates/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind fglrx_updates driver 2012-04-26 17:27:20,726 DEBUG: fglrx.enabled(fglrx_updates): target_alt None current_alt /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf other target alt None other current alt /usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf 2012-04-26 17:27:20,727 DEBUG: fglrx_updates is not the alternative in use 2012-04-26 17:27:20,753 DEBUG: fglrx.enabled(fglrx_updates): target_alt None current_alt /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf other target alt None other current alt /usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf 2012-04-26 17:27:20,753 DEBUG: fglrx_updates is not the alternative in use Finaly, the catalyst drivers from ATI website (12.4 and 12.6) break X11 after rebooting. We can still uninstall the driver with the tty. It's a known issue, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1930450 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966649 System informations: $ lspci|grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] $ sudo lshw -C display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics) physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=0 resources: irq:46 memory:a0000000-afffffff memory:c4400000-c441ffff ioport:4000(size=256) memory:c4440000-c445ffff *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 02 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:43 memory:c0000000-c03fffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:5050(size=8) $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise $ uname -a Linux laptop 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192 LVDS1 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm 1600x900 60.1*+ 1440x900 59.9 1360x768 59.8 60.0 1152x864 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 640x480 59.9 VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bot-comment -- Switchable graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5xxx Series don't work in Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021024 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
