Comment 99 for bug 284408

   Friends... I'm a newbee... and I have some simple questions. I'm using
the fglrx driver with a ATI Radeon FireGL Mobility card on an IBM Thinkpad
T42.

I want to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 and I am assuming that I need to go back
to the opensource driver before I upgrade, else a bug in the upgrade process
will cause the process to fault. Is that right?

From Synaptic I removed the xorg-driver-fglrx and rebooted. This came up in
low res mode with a VESA driver. I didn't know where to go from there to
load and config the opensource driver so I went back into Synaptic and
reinstalled the flgrx driver. How do I remove the fglrx and install and
config the opensource driver?

Thanks for bearing with me.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:15 AM, shanakadu <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have tried your suggestion, and for my computer it didn´t work , well
> it´s
> "work", but without 3d hardware accelaration - when i say without 3d
> hardware accelarion i means than 3D games, 3d programs the work really
> slow.
> Fglrx is the official driver from ATI , so i think we need to focus in it
> for resolv it, and this bug it´s about it.,that is all,
>
> Thanks ,Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009.
>
> P.D.: I will use OSS solution if it worked for me .
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:32 PM, David Taylor
> <email address hidden>wrote:
>
> > It may just be my lack of knowledge but how come KWin's 3d desktop's
> > effects work well with the OSS drivers?
> >
> > --
> > r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839]
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of a duplicate bug.
> >
> > Status in AMD fglrx video driver: Triaged
> > Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
> > Status in Update Manager: Invalid
> > Status in "fglrx-installer" source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> > Status in "update-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> > Status in fglrx-installer in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Committed
> > Status in update-manager in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released
> > Status in fglrx-installer in Ubuntu Jaunty: Triaged
> > Status in update-manager in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released
> >
> > Bug description:
> > Using fglrx-installer 2:8.543-0ubuntu4, r3xx hardware such as Radeon
> 9500,
> > Mobility Radeon 9700 and similar don't work
> >
> > They are not explicitly listed in the modaliases, so they will not be
> > offered by Jockey. In the past, this hardware did work with the fglrx
> > driver. Now the fglrx driver indicates memory errors when trying to
> load.
> >
> > Here is a snippet of what the memory error will look like:
> > [ 1024.699204] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers:
> > 1169 MBytes.
> > [ 1024.700616] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
> > [ 1024.700683] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when
> > allocating device heads
> > [ 1024.700757] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices
> > failed
> >
> > WORKAROUND:
> > You'll need to completely remove the proprietary driver and [re]install
> the
> > open-source driver. As a plus, many users report improved performance
> with
> > the open-source drivers in Intrepid versus ATI's fglrx in Hardy for 2D
> > purposes such as normal desktop use and video playback.
> > 1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
> > 2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati
> > xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> > 3. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
> > 4. Restart.
> >
> > TEST CASE:
> > 1. Install intrepid w/ r3xx hardware.
> > 2. attempt to activate fglrx and reboot verifying unable to start X
> > 3. Activate intrepid-proposed
> > 4. update to new fglrx version, verify that X starts up properly
> >
>
>
> --
> Aitor Juan Martín García
> Consultor SAP
> Tlf: 606746626
> aitor.martingarcia # gmail dot com
>
> --
> r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>