fglrx does not work with Radeon HD 3650 in Intrepid

[Daniel Moerner]

I'm not sure if I should report this bug against module-assistant, fglrx-kernel-source, or xorg-driver-fglrx. It may need to be split up. The issue is that fglrx does not work with Radeon HD 3650 in Intrepid Ibex with Ubuntu 2.6.26-5.13-server. There are a series of problems:

1) m-a fails:

dmr@kronos:~$ sudo m-a a-i --text fglrx
[sudo] password for dmr:
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Updated infos about 1 packages
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.26-5-server
Kernel headers available in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-5-server
Creating symlink...
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done!
unpack
The source tarball could not be found!
Package fglrx-kernel-source not installed?
Running "m-a -f get fglrx-kernel-source" may help.
"/usr/share/modass/packages/default.sh" build KVERS=2.6.26-5-server KSRC=/usr/src/linux KDREV=2.6.26-5.13 kdist_image
The source tarball could not be found!
Package fglrx-kernel-source not installed?
Running "m-a -f get fglrx-kernel-source" may help.
Build failed. Press Return to continue...

Following these instructions does work:
dmr@kronos:~$ sudo m-a --text -f get fglrx-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1311kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 110890 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fglrx-kernel-source 2:8.512-0ubuntu1 (using .../fglrx-kernel-source_2%3a8.512-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Unpacking replacement fglrx-kernel-source ...
Setting up fglrx-kernel-source (2:8.512-0ubuntu1) ...
Adding Module to DKMS build system
Doing initial module build
Installing initial module
Done.

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However, there is no apparent reason why the -f option is necessary.

2) At this point, using the drivers fails. Ubuntu starts up safe graphics mode at 800x600, and if you select fglrx it totally screws up the color balance and is 100% unreadable. Attached is lspci -nn. Xorg.0.log is on the way.

[Daniel Moerner (dmoerner)]

You can see how even though /etc/X11/xorg.conf has:
Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

/var/log/Xorg.0.log just ignores this and loads vesa.

[Daniel Moerner (dmoerner)]

My bug is a dupe of bug 247120...sorry.