Comment 7 for bug 1025488

It sounds like you're in the same boat that I am. Basically, ATI
decided that any Radeon product with a chip numbered 4xxx is too old
to be worth supporting any more. ATI has written you off.

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alessandro Polverini <email address hidden> wrote:
> I've this vga:
>
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
> RS880 [Radeon HD 4250]
>
> and I'm unable to use ubuntu any more, at startup I get an error that
> tells me to use lower resolution but it locks there.
>
> I installed proprietary drivers (tried both with fglrx and fglrx-updates) but when I run aticonfig --initial
> I get:
> aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
>
> Is there anything I can do to regain use of my pc except reinstall the
> old version?
>
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> Title:
> fglrx (not installed): fglrx kernel module failed to build [error:
> implicit declaration of function ‘do_mmap’]
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