ATI graphics driver fails to load

[WaywardGeek]

Binary package hint: xorg

This problem may be specific to Lucid on my laptop: a Dell Studi 1557, with quad i7 CPU and ATI graphics acceleration. Using "Sytem/Administration/Hardware Drivers", an ATI driver is found, which I installed. Once enabled, I rebooted. When the X server started, the screen was garbled, and then switched to low-resolution mode for recovery, at which point I disabled the ATI graphics driver. This driver is especially important as the default driver does not manage power in the ATI graphics card, which heats the machine and runs the fan on high at all times. Also, the default driver does not support OpenGL on this machine.

I've attached jockey.log, which seems to show some problems. If anyone has suggestions on how to proceed, I'd be happy to help debug this on my machine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 18 10:03:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20091217)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:6417 Microdia
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1557
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xorg 1:7.5~3ubuntu4
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-8-generic root=UUID=7fccf957-4375-401c-94fc-d72cda889196 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-8.12-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5~3ubuntu4
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.1~rc3-1ubuntu1
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-8-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 10/06/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.name: 0KM426
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A02
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A02
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd10/06/2009:svnDellInc.:pnStudio1557:pvrA02:rvnDellInc.:rn0KM426:rvrA02:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA02:
dmi.product.name: Studio 1557
dmi.product.version: A02
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.32-8-generic

[António PT (antoniopt)]

This has got to be a fglrx module problem: **sudo modprobe -l | grep fglrx** returns nothing...

[António PT (antoniopt)]

Sorry, it's not a module problem. I mispelled fglrx (flgrx :D). It's actually a fglrx problem, nothing that Ubuntu can fix. You know why? because fglrx only supports xorg>1.7 and lucid has 1.7. So I guess we'll just wait until Catalyst 10 is released and support xorg 1.7.