Comment 136 for bug 284408

Following on from the reports that Catalyst 9.2 fixes the problems: Unfortunately it does not fix the problem on my Dell Inspiron 9100. lspci reports the graphics card as:
     01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
The laptop has a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10 from the alternative CD. The Proposed packages have been installed, as described earlier in this bug thread. uname -a reports:
Linux tux9100 2.6.27-12-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 5 09:26:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

The ATI Catalyst 9.2 Linux driver installer, ati-driver-installer-9.2-x86.x86_64.run, was downloaded from the ATI site. The installer was run and the machine rebooted. I open the System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers window. The ATI drivers were shown to be present but not enabled. At this point compiz.real failed and apport reported a bug which has been filed as Bug #332644. I then tried to enable the ATI driver. Apport then reported that:
     package xorg-driver-fglrx 2:8.543-0ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
and lead me back here as a likely previously reported bug.

Anyway, I wanted others to know that Catalyst 9.2 might not be the fix they hoped. I realise that the Ubuntu maintainers can't do much about this - but thanks for your efforts so far. Its an ATI problem. Hopefully ATI read the thread and will try and get a fix, or open their API.