installation of ati drivers hoses thinkpad T42 system
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The ati fglrx drivers do not work on my ibm thinkpad T42.
The display chip is an ATI mobility Radeon 9600 which is in the supported list of gpu's for this driver.
I tried this on both 8.10 and 9.04beta.
On the 8.10 system, the driver ices when it is loaded and i get into the "having trouble loading the graphics" set of dialogs. However, I am able to run things in degraded graphics mode.
On the 9.04 beta system, the the display is just messed up and I am hosed.
I currently have the 8.10 system installed, so that will be the easiest one to reload the drivers to get you the info you may need. But i could reload the beta if that is more interesting to you.
In both systems, everything worked fine before i loaded the fglrx drivers. These drivers do work fine on my T60 for 8.10. I have no plans to put the beta on that machine.
Hi zadeck,
Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.
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