Ubuntu
fglrx-installer package

Sapphire ATI 3850HD (AGP) does not work with Intrepid

Bug #292103 reported by Jeffree on 2008-11-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #284505: 8.543 Crashes in CompositePicture. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

ATI 3850HD (AGP) does not work with Intrepid.
After upgrading to intrepid no graphics are displayed after the kubuntu splah screen (no KDM login or anything). I think it might be to do with the fglrx-installer bug. Also does not work on live installer CD of Intrepid all worked fine on Hardy Heron however so not sure what is going on.

Revision history for this message

Jeffree (jeffree-100) wrote on 2008-11-06:

I don't think this is the same bug as stated as the screen works for kubuntu splash screen both start-up and shutdown and all the same I have found a fix and solved the problem and now Itrepid is working brilliantly :). Ok so this is what i did:

1.Used recovery mode option and logged in a root user
2. run apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
3. use the command 'exit' to get back to recovery options then run the xfix (xserver recover tool) (I'm not sure whether this acctually achieves anything but it worked :) )
4. Restart Kubuntu will run using vesa drivers and works fine
5. install fglrx using jockey

From doing this i was curious what the problem was so reinstalled the xserver-xorg-video-ati package and same problem occured so it appears to be a problem with those drivers and the Sapphire 3850HD AGP card but fglrx works just fine with it so try as above.