HIS ATI Radeon HD4650 only supports VESA (no 3D acceleration or high resolution support)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

By default Ubuntu uses VESA for ati 4650.

The binary driver for ati does not support the 4650 (it only supports 48xx out of the 4xxx) series. I have tried both the restricted driver that you get by clicking the picture of the card on the panel and the latest ATI drivers (ati-driver-installer-8-10-x86.x86_64) Both fail with the same error. (no screens found)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 23 12:00:29 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.8.0-1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/linuusernamerinter/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/bin
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

Although Ubuntu cannot fix ATIs closed source drivers, it would be nice if there was some 3D acceleration and support for high LCD resolutions (perhaps via the open source drivers).

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

I Just tried installing the ATI 8.10 drivers again. This time it worked. Wierd. Athough ATI does not claim to support the 46xx cards on their driver page, I remember seeing a webpage claiming that support was added in 8.9. Hardy's xserver-xorg-video-ati is 6.8.0-1. Presumably Intrepid will have 8.9 or later and this problem will fix itself. I am guessing this problem is fix released, although I have not tried Intrepid.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Assuming it's fixed with the Intrepid -ati driver.