11.04 amd64 installation on Dell Dimension 9100

[Jim Tarvid]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

After reboot, entered username and password and Unity comes up horribly distorted. Alt+F2 xterm is usable but funky. Install fglrx, reboot and Unity is disabled but Gnome runs perfectly. (I really dislike the Fisher Price interface anyway.) Happy ending but the average user would not make it through the night.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 5 23:40:05 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

[Jim Tarvid (tarvid)]

This installation got even worse as keyboard bindings eventually caused the "2" key to switch DVI output to a mode my monitor would not support. You could work for a few minutes by resetting keyboard in System > Preferences > Keyboard.but eventually typing a "2" would hang the system display.

Incorrectly believing that "64" would yield better performance than "32", I came to my senses and installed the i386 version which fixed a raft of problems including this one.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hey tarvid,

You filed this bug report against natty, but I see it's still open and
doesn't appear to have much activity recently. So, now that oneiric
is released and stable, this may be a good point for you to upgrade
and re-test if this issue is still present there.

If it's solved in the new release and you think it's worth backporting
the fix, please indicate that. Or if having the fix in the new release
is good enough, feel free to close out the bug (or let us know and we'll
close it.)

If it's not solved, leave the bug report open. I can't promise we'll
get to it (we get way more bugs filed than we can usually get to), but
your testing and feedback can help out if and when we do.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.