ATI X700 black screen

[sakrofag]

Hi..
I'v ATIx700 grafikcard, I couldn't get the ATI nor the vesa driver to work with it. I couldn't install it from the desktop cd of that reason, so I upgradet from 6.10 to fiesty and used the fglrx driver that I had installed befor for testing and that doesn't work very wel but I can use X. :P

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file and your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' file as attachments to your bug report? Thanks in advance.

[sakrofag (sakrofag)]

The only diferense between "Xorg.conf.Original" and "xorg.con" is that I'v changed the driver to fgrlx istead of ati. I'v ungraded som packages now where I think there were ati driver packages in. I'll reboot and tell if it works or not.

[sakrofag (sakrofag)]

Hi again. I have upgraded the packages and tested to change the "fglrx" back to "ati". This happend: when I restarted X I could hear that GDM started and if I typed any user name and password that was wrong I could hear the wrong password sound. in other word the X started but I couldn't be able to se what was happening (I couldn't see anything).

with edgy the ati-driver that folowed with ubuntu worked beter than fglrx in all ways.

hope this will help.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Can you please attach Xorg.0.log from using the "ati" driver? You'll find it as Xorg.0.log.old after X has restarted.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

This could be a duplicate of bug #90571. Can you please try the workarounds from that bug report?

[sakrofag (sakrofag)]

It seems like it could be the same problem. I tried the changes he had made but it didn't help me. I tried with only some options and that didn't work either. I have attached the Xorg.0.log that I got when I used the ati driver.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Was this Xorg.log.0 from using the settings in the other bug, or from the original xorg.conf above? In general, please post the corresponding Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf files in pairs.

[sakrofag (sakrofag)]

It's from the original xorg.conf file. I'l attache it here.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

You maybe need to specify some other sync ranges than in bug #90571, since your screen is different than his.

I'll mark this as a duplicate, since the origin of the problem probably is the same.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The xorg.conf at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/7711144/xorg.conf.original-0 and attached to this bug is problematic for the following reason:
The following option is invalid: + HorizSync 28-96