Originally posted by greebothecat
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Installing latest Open Source ATI drivers under Ubuntu 8.04
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My problems are solved!
not on live CD
I simply used System > Administration > Hardware Drivers
Installed default ati proprietary driver (fglrx)
Added EXA
Code:kot@kocur:~$ glxinfo|grep direct direct rendering: Yes kot@kocur:~$ glxinfo|grep OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1300 / X1550 Series OpenGL version string: 2.1.7412 Release OpenGL extensions: kot@kocur:~$ glxgears 22872 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4574.399 FPS 25008 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5001.595 FPS 25001 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5000.017 FPS 24960 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4992.000 FPS kot@kocur:~$
not sure how this happened ^^Last edited by greebothecat; 06 June 2008, 03:12 PM.
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first post here guys.
I have a x1800gto R520 [Radeon X1800]
i followed post #1 to the letter and yet when i reboot i get a black screen when using the ati driver. when i change the driver to radeonhd the computer boots fine. any reason that this could be happening. and this is on a fresh install. installed ubuntu. update/upgrade , reboot and then did everything in post #1.
thanks alot in advance
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Originally posted by funnypanks View Postfirst post here guys.
I have a x1800gto R520 [Radeon X1800]
i followed post #1 to the letter and yet when i reboot i get a black screen when using the ati driver. when i change the driver to radeonhd the computer boots fine. any reason that this could be happening. and this is on a fresh install. installed ubuntu. update/upgrade , reboot and then did everything in post #1.
thanks alot in advance
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Originally posted by greebothecat View Posttry adding
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As the author of the packages being used, I can not recommend the procedure in post #1. Please use the live CD script that I posted in another thread, that's a safe and reproducible way of testing. If that works, see inside the script for how to install permanently. If you don't understand enough to figure it out from there, maybe installing experimental packages is not recommended for you
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Last time it worked better but now i don't get GUI. Only textmode.
Errors:
Errno 104: unable to connect to xserver
Errno 3: server error
Dunno if this is related but this week i got 2 new kernels. I'm using ...19 now. I just installed these drivers so it went fine.
Got it fixed... one endsection was missing.
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Don't forget to run the easy-drm-modules-installer after every kernel update. And use the drm sources corresponding to the libdrm2 that you have installed. So if you got libdrm2 from the xorg-edgers archive:
1. Add "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ubuntu hardy main" to your /etc/apt/sources.list and run "sudo apt-get update"
2. Standing in the same directory as where you have easy-drm-modules-installer, run
Code:apt-get source libdrm2 ./easy-drm-modules-installer -y radeon
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Originally posted by tormod View PostAs the author of the packages being used, I can not recommend the procedure in post #1. Please use the live CD script that I posted in another thread, that's a safe and reproducible way of testing. If that works, see inside the script for how to install permanently. If you don't understand enough to figure it out from there, maybe installing experimental packages is not recommended for you
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Originally posted by funnypanks View Posti just tried that method. right when i press ctrl+alt+f1 the screen goes black and doesn't come back on. it blinks a few times and turns off.
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