ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 goes undetected on Hardware Test

[G4JC]

Binary package hint: xorg

My ATI Radeon HD 4870 simply shows up as "undetected fglrx" when I run the "System Test" app on Ubuntu 9.10 x64. It also fails to enable fglrx from Hardware Drivers. I have been able to get the 9.12 drivers from ATI's site properly configured on the machine, however. Oh, and the latest official 10.1 fails to work at all. :P

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxCommand: resolution_test
CheckboxData: ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 - using 9.12 proprietary drivers.
CheckboxDescription:
 This display is using the following resolution:

 $output

 Is this acceptable for your display?
CheckboxTest: resolution
Date: Tue Feb 9 18:22:23 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EX58-UD3R
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=ff536c3b-732b-4d2b-8725-85519d5e76bb ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Tags: checkbox-bug
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 05/04/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FB
dmi.board.name: EX58-UD3R
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFB:bd05/04/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnEX58-UD3R:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnEX58-UD3R:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: EX58-UD3R
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

that's a safeguard against people installing fglrx, which doesn't work with the xserver in lucid.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi G4JC,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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[G4JC (gaming4jc2)]

No longer an issue in Ubuntu 10.4, the card is detected out of the box with open source drivers. It is also detected at Hardware Drivers and works fine for normal use and OpenGL apps.

However, once the propitiatory software drivers are enabled, the system fails to launch compiz and catches a segmentation fault, that's another bug. :P