Comment 85 for bug 284408

I have an ATI Radeon™ 9700 (Desktop) card

Compiled the fglrx drivers from intrepid-proposed and also downloaded and installed ati-driver-installer-8-12-x86.x86_64.run

set Driver=fglrx in xorg.conf, and both times after rebooting:

#tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.55.2
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: UNSUPPORTED-8.552
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Oct 28 2008 21:22:33
(WW) This ATI Proprietary Linux Driver does not guarantee support of video driver ABI higher than 2.0
(WW) Video driver ABI version of the X server is 4.1
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

# modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko): Cannot allocate memory

# tail /var/log/messages
Dec 14 15:32:15 kernel: [ 710.921544] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
Dec 14 15:32:15 kernel: [ 710.983664] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 2893 MBytes.