Ubuntu
compiz package

  1. Bug #201330 (clovindoo)
  2. Comment #32

Comment 32 for bug 201330

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edu jose (pepinmore) wrote : Re: Need to whitelist multiple ATI cards, or remove blacklisting

Sorry for delay in answer, using "just-cheap-from-18h-to-8h" Internet connection at home.

Chad: Don't know for sure.

The graphics card seems to be detected by the X server as a mobility one, though when I bought the card there was no "Mobility" label anywhere in the box (it's a plain AGP card with the usual VGA, DVI and TV-out connectors). Command lspci -vnn shows the "Mobility" tag too. Maybe they associate the 9xxx chip series with mobility for some reason, or the PCI address range used by the card, or that it's AGP, or a mix of those.

Travis: Damn jockey thing!! (just joking :-) ).

I thought the card was being blacklisted because of the chip and PCI address, and also because the "Mobility" string was detected (so the PC was mistaken as a laptop).

So if the urge of installing the blob driver is from jockey, what do I do? Should I fill a bug asking that jockey does not do that for the card as it works ok with the free driver? (First I will search for similar bugs, if I find it already filled I'll add a comment on it).