intrepid ATI video card driver fails to load
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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usplash (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: usplash
I upgraded my laptop from hardy to intrepid and the ATI video
driver fails to load and I have low resolution.
It appears the ATI driver distributed with intrepid is not compatible.
Can you help? I am out of ideas.
Details follow.
I have a Sony laptop with an ATI video card. In hardy, it was
recognized as:
ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M6 LY [Radeon Mobility 9000]
I upgraded to intrepid from hardy; rebooting then failed to load the
driver properly and went into failsafe mode and presented a low
resolution (800x600) display. The xorg.conf.failsafe file has the
entry:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
and the Xorg.0.log file shows that this driver is loaded:
(II) Loading /usr/lib/
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "vesa"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/
(II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.0, module version = 1.3.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1
But the following two drivers are available on the system after the
upgrade:
/usr/
/usr/
I assume the load on the ati_drv.so failed and that led to the vesa
driver being loaded. Here's the package information.
dpkg -l xserver-
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Name Version
Description
++
==
ii xserver-
ntu2 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver wrapper
dpkg -l xorg
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Name Version
Description
++
==
ii xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
X.Org X Window System
Thank you for taking the time to help make Ubuntu better!
Can you please run the follwing in a terminal:
ubuntu-bug xorg
This command will make sure all the appropriate files and stuff are attached to your bug report.
Thank you :)