My mothers' box runs on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (she mostly doesn't need the latest and greatest and I don't want her software to change all the time, so I've given her LTS).
Now I've upgraded her hardware, and part of that is a mainboard with 690G chipset. So I've installed the xorg-xserver-video-radeonhd and xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg packages from tormodvolden (https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ppa).
I also ran the update-manager just to be sure. Unfortunately what I end up with is massive screen corruption. When I click, for example, the Gnome menu (Applications/Places/System), menu's can be seen building up from little pieces put into place at random. If you wait a few seconds the entire menu eventually gets completed. Like rain falling down, eventually making the entire surface wet. You also see corruption when scrolling with a browser.
Disabling acceleration doesn't help, I've disabled it all. No difference at all. The memory is also ok.
I ended up selecting the vesa driver. That doesn't show any corruption but that can't be the reason AMD opened up all those docs and specs, and I'm missing "some" features.
How do I install the radeonhd driver (or anything that supports 2D acceleration and putting the monitor in standby) without corruption?
Now I've upgraded her hardware, and part of that is a mainboard with 690G chipset. So I've installed the xorg-xserver-video-radeonhd and xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg packages from tormodvolden (https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ppa).
I also ran the update-manager just to be sure. Unfortunately what I end up with is massive screen corruption. When I click, for example, the Gnome menu (Applications/Places/System), menu's can be seen building up from little pieces put into place at random. If you wait a few seconds the entire menu eventually gets completed. Like rain falling down, eventually making the entire surface wet. You also see corruption when scrolling with a browser.
Disabling acceleration doesn't help, I've disabled it all. No difference at all. The memory is also ok.
I ended up selecting the vesa driver. That doesn't show any corruption but that can't be the reason AMD opened up all those docs and specs, and I'm missing "some" features.
How do I install the radeonhd driver (or anything that supports 2D acceleration and putting the monitor in standby) without corruption?
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