[gutsy] ati radeon mobility x1400 cards won't work

[Tal Shachar]

this problem started on ubuntu edgy, continued with feisty, and now it taggs along to gutsy gibbon.

from some reason any ati card (at least i know on my own expirience that it happens on ati mobility radeon x1400) just won't work, period.
doesn't matter if you install it in any resolution, regular mode, safe graphics mode.

in any situation it just crashes in the middle of the instalation and tells you that it couln't install your graphics card.

from my experience with dapper and feisty this problem could be solved by installing from the alternative disc, and then installing the fglrx drivers manualy in command line.(cause forget about an out of the box working graphic gui!!!!)

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what i did on feisty to make it work was the following things:
first i enabled restricted repositories
then i edited xorg.conf
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and aded the following lines:

Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

then i continued with the following code lines:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) # (Okay if it is already installed)
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo depmod -a

sudo aticonfig --initial
sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv

sudo shutdown -r now
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i really think that this problem should be fixed automatically on the installation proccess. i mean, i'm no programer, and if i managed to solve it my self, i imagine its no biggie to solve it automaticly by the installation proccess or the live CD

[Michael DePaulo (mikedep333)]

I just tested this out on my Dell Inspiron 6400. The problem is that the vesa driver does not work.

[Alex Tanner (alex-slightlyunstable)]

I am experiencing the same issues with my Dell Inspiron E1705

[Nabeelfa (nabeelfa-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

still its not working even with the Feisty (GNOME & KDE)

[Nabeelfa (nabeelfa-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm trying with Gutsy Tribe 5 + Toshiba Satellite M100 (ATI Mobility Radeon x1400) and I got the same result, that is, X fails to start.

Well, I saw this bug in Feisty (7.04) and I had to download/install xorg-driver-fglrx (in live CD mode) to install Feisty in my Laptop.

Hey Ubuntu Team!! Please, could you return to Dapper's X conf files? In Dapper this graphic card works perfect. :-D

As mentioned in Bug #103945