ati restricted driver not working in Jaunty

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I was using ATI Catalyst 9.4 in Intrepid but after doing a clean install with Jaunty I could not get the restricted driver to work. I tried the system/admin/hardware drivers activate first. Then when I rebooted the Ubuntu loading bar came up and then I had a random coloured screen with a complete system lock up. After another complete system install I also tried the manual install following ATI's directions. That is how I installed the Catalyst 9.4 in Ubuntu Intrepid and it worked fine. But now I just get a system lock up at boot with a corrupted display.
I'm not sure if this is related but both Intrepid and Juanty have incorrectly identified my screen as a LG 52" when it is in fact a 37" model number 37LG50
I am using a ATI 4870X2 video card
CPU is a 64 Phenom quad core.
System memory is 4 gigs

I also added to my
xorg.cfg in Intrepid with the following commands to prevent programs from starting on the wrong resolution for my monitor
sudo aticonfig --initial -f
sudo aticonfig --sync-video=on
sudo aticonfig --resolution=0,1920x1080,1600x1200,1360x768,1280x1024,1280x768,1024x768,800x600,640x480,720x400,640x350
sudo aticonfig --hsync=0,31.468-79.976
sudo aticonfig --vrefresh=0,56.25-75.025
sudo aticonfig --vs=on

This does not seem to help in Juanty
I am using the 64 bit AMD Jaunty Jackalope release

[sea_man (mar1o-bross)]

Same problem here.

In Ubuntu 8.10 whit Catalyst 9.3 all work whit my 4850x2

but now whit the 9.04 nothing to do... Catalyst form AMD site, don`t work..... restricted drivers installed from ubuntu, don`t work...

Please help !!

[one51 (one51s)]

I have tried installing 9.4 on Ubuntu Jaunty Linux. While I was finally able to install (via EnvyNG) the performance was miserable. Video was jerky, and maximizing the video window resulted in a system hang.

Motherboard: Asus M4A78-Pro
Graphics: Onboard Radion HD 3200

From what I read on ubuntuforums, seems that no one with a 3xxx got decent results. The support from ATI is miserable and will force me to buy Nvidia next time (and perhaps now, to waste money on an add-in PCI-E card from Nvidia).

Getting a working driver is critical for me to use dual monitors (LCD monitor + DLP projector). Please push ATI to fix their drivers, perhaps they could do some *TESTING* using Jaunty before release of the next driver?

[hohohorea (horea-scalat)]

Fresh install of jaunty x64 on
CPU Intel Core i7 920
Motherboard Asus P6T Deluxe v2
Graphics Asus Ati 4870

restricted drivers cause short garbled colours to flicker on screen then it all goes blank
same thing happens with drivers downloaded from AMD/ATI site.

being restricted to 2d only kinda sux, pls help!

[dkazaz (dcaxax-bbs)]

Similar problems.

Fresh install of Jaunty x64. System is Quad Q9300. Asus P45 Motherboard, 4GB RAM, ATI 3650.

ATI restricted driver installed ok, but video playback is impossible - very choppy, sometimes no picture (CPU is 90-100%).

Applies to DVD, XviD and x264 playback, all files tested fine under Vista x64.

During video playback, system locks up on any attempt to move window, resize, go to full screen or back.
Disabling compiz seems to help a bit but only marginal improvement.

[njbeukes (njbeukes)]

I have the same problem with my 4870x2 and ubuntu 9.04
The drivers from amd 9.5 ccc do not work and I have gone back to 8.10 where i have hardware 3d working with the 9.5 drivers.
When will they fix the error with this damm driver, it is so straight forward in 8.10, any newbie can load the driver ?