Backport of fglrx to Feisty needed for radeon x1300 support

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The 'xorg.conf' file you posted has the vesa driver. Could you please post your 'xorg.conf' file you use with fglrx? Thanks in advance.

Ok, this is my xorg.conf at the moment. I have ubuntu up and running with the vesa driver, but I've just enabled the fglrx in the restricted driver modules. At this point, if i restart, Feisty freezes on startup. Is there a log file it would be usefull to post?

The log file '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' or '/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old' would be useful. Thanks again.

OK, here they are as they stand. I'll restart, get to black screen, reboot into recovery and save the files then edit drivers and post the new ones too!

Ok, here are the new files.

The line
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found

looks interesting...

Hello,
I have the same problem as ChrisN_uk , this is my story: I installed a Kubuntu Feisty, and then a tried the restricted fglrx driver (v.8.37), and modified the xorg.conf ( "Driver" "fglrx", "Composite" "0"), I did the aticonfig --initial and aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv but It just messed up my xorg.conf so I did manually. After reboot all I got was a black screen. I took a look to the Xorg.0.log and most of the time it got stuck when loading the fglrxdrm. I had the same problem with a Debian Etch distro, It only worked out with the fglrx v8.28 from the debian repositories.
Anyway, but taking a look to the Xorg.0.log.error.The line
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:3:0:1) found
 This error usually appears when the driver doesn´t support your card GPU.

So are things working for you now?

I did install a fglrx driver 8.28 from the debian repositories and it worked fine, but in a debian distro. And when I tried to install a later than 8.28 version in that same Debian I got the same error you have here.

(II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux//libfglrxdrm.so
(II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
 compiled for 7.1.0, module version = 8.34.8
 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3

Aparently, the kernel "dies" when it loads this module. A friend told me that maybe the kernel is not compile with the same driver that it is loading, he also explained me a way to do it. But I don't remember how, all I know is that we need the kernel sources and then we go to /usr/src and do a make ...and few more things. I have been told that we don't need the kernel sources since we have the kernel headers, and when we do a module-assistant prepare, build and install, all this procedure compiles the kernel with the driver.
Finally, since the module-assistant way doesn't work, maybe we have to tried the old fashion way. I'm gonna find out how to compile the kernel and also how to erase any fglrx old driver from the system. If anyone in here knows all this, could be a very good help.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 96279 and is being marked as such. Incidentally, new fglrx drivers supporting your card have been added to Gutsy. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

I'm also experiencing this problem on a x1300 card for a Dell PC. I am not using the Radeon Mobility x1300.

When trying to load fglrx I get this message 'sudo modprobe fglrx'
    FATAL: Error running install command for fglrx

I'm able to get my card to work with Feisty kernel version 2.6.20-15-generic. I only have this problem on 2.6.20-16-generic.

If Feisty does need a newer fglrx driver I would like to see a backport of some type.

Feisty debs are available here:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/fglrx-8.37.6-Feisty/

Assigning to feisty-backports. A gutsy version of fglrx that fixes radeon x1300 has been uploaded and confirmed to fix.

Jeff, Chris, and acron, please verify the feisty debs I've provided solve the issue, and also if you could, please work directly with the feisty-backport team to get this added to feisty.

Sorry for the stupid question but which debs do I need to install and how? I'm more than happy to help any way i can, I just don't really know what I'm doing.

The most recent update to the fglrx driver seems to work for me under the 2.6.20-16-generic kernel around the 6/29/07 timeframe.

/var/log/dpkg
upgrade fglrx-control 8.34.8+2.6.20.5-16.28 8.34.8+2.6.20.5-16.29
upgrade xorg-driver-fglrx 7.1.0-8.34.8+2.6.20.5-16.28 7.1.0-8.34.8+2.6.20.5-16.29
upgrade linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-16-generic 2.6.20.5-16.28 2.6.20.5-16.29

Is anyone else seeing this improvement?

this is a kernel module, which the Backports team cannot handle.

Same card and same problem, black screen with fglrx driver, in amd64 architecture.

I just tried the new updates, 8.39.4, but still get the black screen no matter what I try...

ATI driver 8.39.4 successfully installed on feisty (amd64) following this installation guide (Method 2) : http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Feisty_Installation_Guide#Method_1:_Install_the_Driver_the_Ubuntu_Way

But no success on gutsy (amd64)

As the exisitng information in this bug states that it is fixed in Gutsy, I am setting the Ubuntu bugtask's status to "Fix Released".