intrepid ATI video card driver fails to load

[jbraw]

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/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
     (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/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so
     (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/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
     /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so

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-xorg-video-ati

     Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
     | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
     |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
     ||/ Name Version
     Description
     +++-==========================================-=================================
     =================-============================================
     ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubu
     ntu2 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver wrapper

dpkg -l xorg

     Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
     | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
     |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
     ||/ Name Version
     Description
     +++-==========================================-=================================
     =================-============================================
     ii xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
     X.Org X Window System

[xteejx (xteejx)]

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 :)

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!