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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

X doesn't start with ati driver (Flight 7, X700, WS)

Bug #44370 reported by Szilveszter Farkas
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xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Ubuntu Dapper Flight 7 Desktop CD (Live)
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (1280x800)
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M1437G

X doesn't start with "ati" driver ("fglrx" works fine).

See the attached files.

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Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic) wrote : Xorg.0.log

X server startup log.

description: updated
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Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic) wrote : xorg.conf

Autogenerated xorg.conf

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Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic) wrote : lspci-n.txt

lspci -n output

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Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic) wrote : lspci-v.txt

lspci -v output

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

src/atiprobe.c appears to consist mainly of cheap crack that roughly resembles C. The probing is obviously going horribly wrong - mac64 seems to be the fallback, for no obvious reason.

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

Can you try with

Driver "radeon"

rather than ati or fglrx?

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Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic) wrote : Xorg.0.log_radeon

With Driver "radeon" it starts up well, but I can only see a blank (black) screen. Log attached.

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

Ok, so that works?

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Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic) wrote :

As I mentioned above, I get a blank screen. I can see nothing. The GNOME session started up well (I see the different running processes in the console with ps), but I can't use it.

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

Ah, sorry - your comment didn't show up earlier for some reason. I'll look into this further.

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

Blank screen issue was reported by many users with ATI x700 card - see bug 22985 (and it's duplicates).

Try adding the following line to your xorg.conf (Monitor section):

Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,Auto"

If this helps, then this is probablty duplicate of that bug.

Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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VesaNieminen (die-spammers) wrote :

Same laptop here, and same problem. Ubuntu (5.10, flights 2, 4, 6 and beta 1-2) has never booted clean because of the driver problem, and neither did any other linux live cd I tried except knoppix4 and that has wrong screen resolution.

fglrx works perfectly out of the box with all other xorg.conf correct, haven't tried radeon driver yet.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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