[Lucid] [ATi Mobility Radeon X1600]GL renderer not installed, firefox crashes at flash video maximization, compiz effects broke

[Kenneth Wee]

Binary package hint: xorg

Upgrade to Lucid from Karmic breaks the 3D display.

GL renderer not installed, 3D software,Blender cannot run.
Flash Video maximization crashes firefox.
Compiz breaks, effects can't be enabled.

Tried installing fglrx packages. However, after installation, "aticonfig --initial" command cannot be run.

I've posted my observations in the thread below
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1473196

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 87c8d9774a753009e27abf162f9d8f02
CheckboxSystem: 2954e74ba17fb0e37fc942cd1d9fab4e
Date: Sat May 22 21:08:21 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: Acer Garda2
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=993795c2-af51-4a3a-b102-37fb04cb9d11 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 01/31/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: V1.28
dmi.board.name: Garda2
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Rev
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: None
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.28:bd01/31/2007:svnAcer:pnGarda2:pvr0100:rvnAcer:rnGarda2:rvrRev:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Garda2
dmi.product.version: 0100
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic

[Kenneth Wee (vken85)]

Did some extra digging,

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Drivers
Followed the instructions to install fglrx drivers.

When I ran the command:
sudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf

An interesting list shows up:
Nvidia driver is at priority 9700
fglrx driver is at priority 1000
Vesa driver is at priority 600 (Can't remember exact)

This probably means the driver I'm using now is nvidia running on my ATi mobility radeon card. Don't understand how it works but it has been working ever since I upgraded.

Subsequently, I switched to fglrx (manual) and followed the instructions.

When I ran the command:
aticonfig --initial

Output:
Compatible adaptor not found

I then restarted the system
It seemed to work, except the screen resolution is a bit screwed(no wide-screen ratio)
But effects still doesn't seem to work, didn't try blender nor ran diagnostics for checks.

So I changed back to nvidia through the terminal.
When I switched back, some new messages popped:
failed to create /usr/lib32/vdpau/libdvpau_nvdia.so.1
libdvpau_nvdia.so.1 not found
failed to create /usr/lib32/vdpau/libdvpau_nvdia.so
libdvpau_nvdia.so not found

I checked into /usr/lib/nvidia-current/vdpau/
there is a link to both files, but the link seem to link to some non-existent library.

I restarted again this time after switching.
This time it screwed up my graphical interface.
After the purple screen boot up to desktop, my screen went blank.
Instinctively I tried ctrl+alt+F1. It went to console, works.
Tried back ctrl+alt+F7. It went back to desktop, with the colours extremely broken. It seems certain colours are out of range and displayed very weirdly. Screen aspect ratio is also wrong.

Tried to install back the driver packages through synaptics to ATi/Nvidia, was a failure. I'm stuck with a faulty display desktop in Lucid, that makes reading a little bit more than inconvenient for the eyes.

Subsequently, I installed Karmic back side-by-side. Karmic works fine, at this time of writing. I'm laying my Lucid dormant until, hopefully, someone with better expertise could help with this issue.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

So, you've got two problems here:
1) Something has accidentally installed the nvidia drivers during your upgrade to Lucid, breaking all other drivers. Since you don't have an nvidia card, that's broken your display drivers.

2) The fglrx driver no longer supports your card, and the fglrx drivers break all other drivers, so even if you uninstall the nvidia drivers, fglrx will be breaking your display drivers.

What you need to do is remove both nvidia and fglrx. Then the open-source xserver-xorg-video-ati drivers can work.

I'm marking this bug as invalid; it's a configuration problem.