Kubuntu fails to work with ATI HD 2600 Pro AGP card

[Toni Helenius]

ATI HD 2600 Pro AGP card doesn't seem to work properly in Kubuntu 8.04 nor in Kubuntu 9.04. I have tried radeon/ati, radeonhd (version from the official repos) and the propriety ATI driver (many many versions of it). Many of these tries result in X being corrupted or not starting at all. Usually the fgrlx being the worst. Best results displayed unbearably slow system, where scrolling down a web page is a one day's work. Kubuntu 8.04 displayed a little better performance, but far from being usable still.

In Windows, it is very difficult to find the correct driver as well since ATI doesn't seem to give much support to the AGP versions of these cards. But it works when the correct driver is found.

The Internet tells some success stories on this, but nothing that I have managed to replicate. So I thought it is wise to start this bug thread here to acknowledge this problem and hopefully find some solution.

The motherboard chipset is NVIDIA 3.

[Toni Helenius (toni-helenius)]

Oh yes, and I tried another MB as well with VIA's chipset. And even few different power supplies.

[AnttiV (antti-vahtera)]

Same here, HD2600XT AGP card, works ok in windows with official (agp hotfix) drivers, but have been unable to make it work at all in ubuntu 9.04. fglrx installed I only get very, very corrupted colors (talk about color-cycling 16 colors across the 24bit palette...) or nothing at all (x starts, but displays only black screen). Computer is Compaq D310 with i845G chipset.

[Uwe Koch (uwe-koch)]

Please follow this link. It worked perfectly for me. I hope it helps you:

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Jaunty_Installation_Guide

[Toni Helenius (toni-helenius)]

I installed many many versions of the catalyst drivers according to that wiki. It did not work. If I recall correctly the latest catalyst I tried was 9.2 or 9.3... But thanks anyway.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
Thanks in advance.

[Toni Helenius (toni-helenius)]

I can't verify this any more. I don't have access to this hardware any longer.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

As the bug is not reproducible by the reporter I mark as Invalid
:)Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage .

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