SYSTEM
PROBLEM
WILD GUESS
Thanks for any help you can provide!
-Porter
EDIT - Here are the logfiles requested later in the thread:
I just put a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10 on my server/mediabox with a new (repurposed) video card, an ATI X1550 (MSI RX1550-TD256EH). System is an Athlon64 X2 3500+, on an MSI K9N6SGM-V motherboard. Chipset is Nvidia MCP61. Standard Ubuntu 8.10 installed from CD, Xorg 7.4, xserver 1.5.2.
Everything works perfectly out of the box on the default radeon driver, no display issues whatsoever. Comes up immediately in 1920x1080. The display is a 37" Westinghouse HD monitor (LVM-37W3SE), connected via DVI.
Everything works perfectly out of the box on the default radeon driver, no display issues whatsoever. Comes up immediately in 1920x1080. The display is a 37" Westinghouse HD monitor (LVM-37W3SE), connected via DVI.
PROBLEM
Installing fglrx using the Ubuntu restricted driver panel goes without a hitch until reboot... display comes up with the Ubuntu scrolling "loading" bar and then goes blank when X starts up. The system is running, X just isn't displaying to screen. Dropping to console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 works fine, and I am able to run sudo aticonfig --initial -f, which writes properly to xorg.conf. Rebooting brings me right back to the blank screen problem.
Running fglrxinfo from console returns an error, it says " Error: Unable to open display (null) ".
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Or suggestions on what I should try next?
Running fglrxinfo from console returns an error, it says " Error: Unable to open display (null) ".
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Or suggestions on what I should try next?
WILD GUESS
Here's a bit of info that may or may not be relevant... The graphics card is in the PCIe 16x slot, but on this motherboard it only functions to 8x... the documentation for the board indicates that it doesn't work with certain ATI cards for that reason, but this series isn't listed as one of the cards with a problem. I'm not sure if this is related? Possibly the radeon driver runs in 1x (or variable) mode and fglrx tries to force to 16x? I'm just throwing out wild guesses here.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
-Porter
EDIT - Here are the logfiles requested later in the thread:
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