installation of ati drivers hoses thinkpad T42 system

[Kenneth Zadeck]

The ati fglrx drivers do not work on my ibm thinkpad T42.
The display chip is an ATI mobility Radeon 9600 which is in the supported list of gpu's for this driver.

I tried this on both 8.10 and 9.04beta.

On the 8.10 system, the driver ices when it is loaded and i get into the "having trouble loading the graphics" set of dialogs. However, I am able to run things in degraded graphics mode.
On the 9.04 beta system, the the display is just messed up and I am hosed.

I currently have the 8.10 system installed, so that will be the easiest one to reload the drivers to get you the info you may need. But i could reload the beta if that is more interesting to you.

In both systems, everything worked fine before i loaded the fglrx drivers. These drivers do work fine on my T60 for 8.10. I have no plans to put the beta on that machine.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi zadeck,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[Kenneth Zadeck (zadeck)]

Here is everything you asked for. This is from the 8.10 system.

thanks

kenny

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

AMD no longer supports pre-r600 hardware on fglrx, so we're closing this bug as wontfix at this time.

Going forward, Ubuntu will be focusing efforts around -ati for this hardware.

[Kenneth Zadeck (zadeck)]

I do not have a problem with you closing this bug, But before you do you should consider updating the package documentation of the fglrx driver because it says that a radeon 9600 is a supported chipset.

kenny

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:03:47PM -0000, Kenneth Zadeck wrote:
> I do not have a problem with you closing this bug, But before you do you
> should consider updating the package documentation of the fglrx driver
> because it says that a radeon 9600 is a supported chipset.

Which package documentation file mentions that?

If you're referring to the files in /usr/share/doc/fglrx/, we do not
maintain those, and I'm not sure we're even allowed to modify them as
per the licensing terms.

I didn't find any mention of "9600" in the Debian packaging files
in fglrx-installer-8.600/debian, but if I missed something there, we can
update those without problem.

Bryce

[Kenneth Zadeck (zadeck)]

Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators
Video driver for the ATI Radeon and FireGL graphics accelerators.
this is the description for xorg-driver-fglrx from the synaptic package manager

This version of the ATI driver officially supports:
 * RADEON X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900
 * RADEON 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800
 * RADEON X800, X700, X600, X550, X300 series (AGP and PCI Express)
 * MOBILITY RADEON 9000, 9200, 9600, 9800, X700
 * MOBILITY RADEON 9000/9100 IGP Series
 * FireGL 8700, 8800, E1, E2, X1, X2, X3, Z1, T2
 * MOBILITY FireGL 9100, T2
 * RADEON XPRESS 200

This package provides 2D display drivers
and hardware accelerated OpenGL.

Canonical provides critical updates supplied by the developers of xorg-driver-fglrx until May 2010.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

That content was in an earlier version. It's been removed from
debian/control in later versions.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 17:47, Kenneth Zadeck <email address hidden>wrote:

> Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators
> Video driver for the ATI Radeon and FireGL graphics accelerators.
> this is the description for xorg-driver-fglrx from the synaptic package
> manager
>
>
> This version of the ATI driver officially supports:
> * RADEON X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900
> * RADEON 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800
> * RADEON X800, X700, X600, X550, X300 series (AGP and PCI Express)
> * MOBILITY RADEON 9000, 9200, 9600, 9800, X700
> * MOBILITY RADEON 9000/9100 IGP Series
> * FireGL 8700, 8800, E1, E2, X1, X2, X3, Z1, T2
> * MOBILITY FireGL 9100, T2
> * RADEON XPRESS 200
>
>
> This package provides 2D display drivers
> and hardware accelerated OpenGL.
>
> Canonical provides critical updates supplied by the developers of xorg-
> driver-fglrx until May 2010.
>
> --
> installation of ati drivers hoses thinkpad T42 system
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350931
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Mario Limonciello
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[Kenneth Zadeck (zadeck)]

This is the content that is available on my 8.10 system which is completely up to date as of this morning.

kenny