Bulletproof X appears and is unreadable after upgrade to intrepid

[Jonathan Avraham]

Clicked OK blindly on the windows and got the gdm screen with a wrong resolution.

Specs:
ATI Radeon 9600 with latest fglrx (8.10)
Display is a Toshiba LCD TV connected with a DVI to HDMI cable.

[Anthony Noto (angusthefuzz)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please attach your X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) to the bug report. Additionally, would it be possible for you to take a screenshot of your problem. Digital camera images of the screen are a great help as well. Finally, please attach the output of "dmesg > dmesg.log" after a fresh boot and attach the resulting file "dmesg.log" to this bug report.

[Jonathan Avraham (shambler-com)]

I'll attach the relevant log from that day, I've since corrected the faulty X condition by reconfiguring xorg as suggested in the xorg.conf file.

[Jonathan Avraham (shambler-com)]

I'll also add the failsafe log.

[Anthony Noto (angusthefuzz)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and the information from xorg. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better and I am glad you were able to get it working.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This bug report is a bit ambiguous. What does "unreadable" mean? Was it in a language you're unfamiliar with? Was the screen corrupted? or...?

[Jonathan Avraham (shambler-com)]

The resolution was low and the text wasn't rendered correctly. It looks as if the DPI setting was wrong, i.e. the text was rendered too small to be readable. I'll be happy to answer any further questions.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

without more info, I have no clue. guessing it's just another proprietary driver issue. --> fglrx-installer.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -fglrx driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get fglrx 8.620 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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.

[Jonathan Avraham (shambler-com)]

I actually can't test it on Jaunty/Karmic because the fglrx driver on Xorg 1.6 doesn't support the Radeon 9600...