ATI x1700 are not working with 9.04

[.Ru]

After upgrade to Jaunty X server refused to start.

It shows blur screen. When i press Alt+Ctrl+F1-F8 - it's seems that screen are changed but it shows wrong thing - it is not terminal.
Looks like driver switches video card to wrong mode and do not want to set it correctly.

Using of recovery X-server (from recovery console) do not help.

Hard- and soft- ware: ATI radeon x1700, Ubuntu 9.04 release, fglrx driver.

What can i do for fixing Ubuntu?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi vodarus,

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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[aya (aya-mega-anime)]

But as far as I know ATI dropped support for x1*** cards and you cannot use fglrx driver. I have x1600, and I have the same problem.

I did a completely fresh install of 9.04 and there is nothing coming up in the Hardware Drivers but in 8.10 it used to find that there is a proprietary driver available for my card.

Just out of curiosity I installed xorg-driver-fglrx and got exactly the same problems as you describe.

So, I think to make your X work you need to use an opensource driver and install xserver-xorg-video-radeon package. Then copy your x.org from backup (nothing should say 'fglrx' there), reboot and you should be fine.

Bryce, here you have my lspci if it helps.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Yes, aya's right, AMD no longer supports this chip with -fglrx. Fortunately the open source driver should support it well enough.