Toshiba Satellite A200 running Gutsy shows strange colors after hibernation

The xorg.conf indicates that the VESA driver is being used and it seems that the ATI driver does not support this hardware.

Should I try any other driver?

Please try Hardy alpha3 livecd if it works better.

I have an A200-IM8 with ATI Radeon HD2600. I used an application called Evny http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html The application detects the graphics card, downloads and install the Linux drivers.

The screen looks way better after that - 3D effects etc start showing.

Note the ATI driver hasn't solved my Hibernation problem - computer still refuses to go to sleep but now when it returns everything looks fine and I can now (ocasionally) see a message popup saying something about "your machine could not go to sleep look in the help for answers". None found so far. Unfortunately this is a show stopper - without hibernation I can't switch to Ubuntu as my main day to day OS.

Ok, so the toshiba has a HD2600.. which the ati driver does not support at the moment.

I don't know if this will fix this specific issue, but I've backported a bunch of high importance patches that upstream recommended, that fix problems sort of like this one, so I think it would be worth the time to test. Please try this .deb and report what you find:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/ati/

If we can determine that the patches in this deb fix this bug, they may be candidates for backporting to Hardy.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. In the development cycle for Intrepid there have been some vast improvements in the open source ati video driver and we could use your help testing them. Could you please download the latest Alpha CD image of Intrepid and test this particular bug just using the Live CD? You can find the latest image at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . Your testing can help make Ubuntu and the open source ati driver even better! Thanks in advance.

Looks like current -ati supports the HD 2600:

radeon_chipset_gen.h: { PCI_CHIP_RV630_9581, "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600" },
radeon_chipset_gen.h: { PCI_CHIP_RV630_9583, "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT" },
radeon_chipset_gen.h: { PCI_CHIP_RV630_9586, "ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP" },
radeon_chipset_gen.h: { PCI_CHIP_RV630_9587, "ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP" },
radeon_chipset_gen.h: { PCI_CHIP_RV630_9588, "ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT" },
radeon_chipset_gen.h: { PCI_CHIP_RV630_9589, "ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro" },
radeon_chipset_gen.h: { PCI_CHIP_RV630_958B, "ATI Gemini Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT" },
radeon_chipset_gen.h: { PCI_CHIP_RV630_958E, "ATI Radeon HD 2600 LE" },

Closing as fixed.