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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #28925
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 28925

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Florian Pflug (fgp) wrote : Re: X fails to start in dapper flight3 & 4 with ati X600

I can confirm this bug too on an Dell Optiplex GX620.
The installer used driver "ati" in the xorg.conf file, but AFAIK
this driver only supports mach64-cards, and maybe some other
older cards. Changing this to "radeon" instead gave me a running
X, altough without DRI.

Installling the fglrx packages worked, and DRI was supported afterwards -
but the ati-driver seems to be rather unstable on this machine - probably
because of problems with the vesa framebuffer driver used for the console.
I cannot disable this driver, however, because then I get no picture
on my (dvi-connected) LCD screen during the ubuntu boot (Incompatible resolution..).

According to the 2.6.16 changelog, drm should work with 2.6.16 + radeon x600.
Apparently the only thing missing in the correct PCI id in the radeon driver, to make
it detect the x600 card. I'm currently bulding a custom 2.6.15 kernel with that pci-id
included.

It would be nice if this (rather trivial) patch could be backported into the next
ubuntu 2.6.15 kernel.