X won't start on ATI card without fglrx
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| xserver-xorg-driver-vesa (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
X has problems starting on my ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 with the standard VESA driver.
The error message says that there are no usable screens found when X tries to start.
I can solve the problem by dropping to a tty with Ctrl-Alt-Fx and installing fglrx, but I have to fight with ifconfig and iwconfig and networking to estabilish a proper wireless connection from the commandline (I'm on a laptop and don't have convenient access to a wired plug) so that fglrx can be fetched.
This bug was in Feisty, and has persisted into Gutsy as far as I can tell.
I can submit the output from sudo lspci -vvnn, the very basic and default xorg.conf that gets used to reproduce the error.
I'll also submit more exact error text and also Xorg.0.log files as soon as I reproduce the error again.
| Bojan Rajkovic (bojanr) wrote | #1 |
| Bojan Rajkovic (bojanr) wrote | #2 |
| Bojan Rajkovic (bojanr) wrote | #3 |
Attaching lspci, xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log files: