OK...I'm fed up over this. I can't get the 8.42.3 driver to work with my fresh Ubuntu 7.10 install. Previosly after reinstall I have not enabled the propriatery ATI driver, just been using the VESA (which behaves nicely during suspend). Btw, I have an HP NX9420 laptop with an ATI Radeon Mobility X16000. On Ubuntu 7.04 I have jut several ATI drivers without any problems.
No my problem is that I can't seem to get ATI to work properly with direct rendering. This is the output of my glxinfo | grep direct:
fglrx says:
My Xlog.0.log goes reports, among other things, this:
sudo modprobe -l | grep fglrx reports:
I have installed the ATI driver precisly like this:
No my problem is that I can't seem to get ATI to work properly with direct rendering. This is the output of my glxinfo | grep direct:
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glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
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display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)
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(II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 7.1.x.y with x.y >= 0.0 (II) fglrx(0): detected X.org 7.1.0.0 (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xc0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x10000000 (==) fglrx(0): Write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x10000000) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1728,8191) (II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1728,1050) (front color buffer - assumption) (II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1728 x 7141 (==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled (II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION (II) Loading extension ATITVOUT (**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled (WW) fglrx(0): Textured Video not supported without DRI enabled. (WW) fglrx(0): Video Overlay not supported on AVIVO based graphics cards. For XVideo support use Option "TexturedVideo". (II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines Offscreen Pixmaps Setting up tile and stipple cache: 32 128x128 slots 32 256x256 slots 16 512x512 slots (II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled (II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering disabled (==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled (==) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension XAccessControlExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR (II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE (II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
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/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/misc/fglrx.ko
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sudo apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx sudo rm -f /usr/src/fglrx-kernel*.deb sudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx" reboot wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run sudo apt-get install module-assistant build-essential fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++5 linux-headers-generic bash ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy sudo dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-source_8.42.3-1_i386.deb xorg-driver-fglrx_8.42.3-1_i386.deb sudo m-a prepare,update sudo m-a build,install fglrx-kernel sudo depmod sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf - removed the following: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "0" # or "Disable" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "off" EndSection reboot
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