8.42.3 DRI initialization failed!

[Uchikoma]

...and fglrx is blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist correct?

That is, in the non-commented entry (there is a similar entry, but that's commented out as it's used for an example, you have the following:

Blacklist= fglrx

or something to that effect.

If that still does not work, give this solution a try:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=16836&postcount=4

[b4sakenxx]

"sudo rmmod fglrx"

will not work unless you have previously installed drivers. which in this case you shouldn't b/c in your first post you have a clean install of gutsy.

what you need is

"gksu gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common"

then in the blacklist section, put fglrx like uchikoma posted.

also restore your xorg.conf if you made a backup.

then restart and run aticonfig --initial

then enable the driver in restrictred driver manager and it'll load the new driver. then reboot again and hopefully have everything working.

[Ren H?ek]

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:

[...]

I actually posted already a link, but it seams like it got no attantion .

I had the same problem with Ubuntu:
After a flawless installation the module won't load.

Trying to load module manually...

$ modprobe -vf fglrx

...gave me this output:

install /sbin/lrm-video fglrx

You can get the module to load with something like:

$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/misc/fglrx.ko
$ modprobe fglrx

But you have to repeat this workaround after every reboot.

The solution is to modifie the file "/etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video". Comment out the line with fglrx:

#install fglrx /sbin/lrm-video fglrx $CMDLINE_OPTS