Comment 33 for bug 355495

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Leo Milano (lmilano) wrote : Re: Jaunty: Display doesnt work for ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Janaka: good points. Let's clean things up a bit:

* Both you and Sean could get your cards to work with flgrx after the cleanup you and Sean mentioned (and this is a bug in the installer as you mentioned). You cards are AMD Firestream 9250 and ATI Movility Radeon HD 3470.

* There is a similar, but "reverse" bug affecting the installer. That other bug is about running the -ati (radeon, opensource) driver after having had fglrx. The root is the same, a bug in the installer where both drivers overlap:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/285603

* Cleanup notes here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/FglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver

* However, other people are not able to run the fglrx driver, even after the cleanup. That includes Patrik (Radeon Mobility X1600) and myself (on board Radeon HD3200). Yesterday I tried a clean install on a USB stick, to make sure I didn't have remnant issues from my upgrade, and same thing. No way to get fglrx going, neither from the repositories, nor from the latest ATI Catalyst release (9.4). I did follow the clean up steps.

Ok, I hope this helps clear things up. Should Patrick and I file different bug reports for our graphics cards? Or should we report this upstream to the gflrx team? Do they accept bug reports? There is little that Ubuntu can do with a closed driver.