fglrx 8.6 graphic corruption on 4850

[Luigi Maselli]

I'm on an updated Jaunty release. It is completly unusable and I had to remove xorg-driver-fglrx to restore a "working" system.

The xorg.conf seems to not be considered anymore. I have "radeon" inside it but still loaded fglrx

[Luigi Maselli (grigio)]

The unique fglrx log I found (but with the past Xorg)

[Luigi Maselli (grigio)]

Picture: http://grigio.org/files/jaunty-fglrx.jpg

The workaround is to come back to the radeon driver:
restart in recovery mode

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-fglrx
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
sudo init 5

[Luigi Maselli (grigio)]

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

to fix it

[M Rolle (rolle)]

Thanks Luigi.. I been following this one as its the same error (or close enough to it). If want to merge my thread with this that's fine: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/345264

aticonfig --initial -f worked the other stuff the post above didn't.

Now---before I reboot, do I need to add aticonfig --inital -f somewhere to make it stay put? Should I stop doing upgrades?

[rbmorse (rbmorse)]

Running

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

needs only be run once after installing the driver. All it does is write the proper options into the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

[M Rolle (rolle)]

Gotcha =) then I'm good to go now. The new kernel update really seems to have fixed many of the graphical errors. Firefox scrolling, notification dialog, list goes on. Gracias

[Luigi Maselli (grigio)]

This issue still happens with latest fglrx on jaunty

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

I´ve assigned this bug to the fglrx package.

Thank You for making Ubuntu better.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi Luigi,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
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[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.