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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #114520
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 114520

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Mike Agnew (magnew-euronet) wrote : Re: ATI Radeon 9250 PCI black screen and console freeze with DRI

I cannot say if it worked in Edgy since I started with Feisty (am new to Ubuntu having not used Unix for 10 or so years).

Downloaded the driver package from link. Did a sudo dpkg -i on it.
It seemed to install OK. Did not need to do any --configure on Xserver-xorg - said it was already configured.

Then edited my xorg.conf to enable the commented out line:
    Load "dri"

Re-booted and still got black screen.
Tried w4ett tweaks:
    VideoRam 131072
    Option "UseFBDev" "true"
    Option "BusType" "PCI"

Did not help either. Still black screen.
Will attach Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf again.