Comment 2 for bug 32515

I've run into this problem as well. I don't know if it affects other Radeon chips, but I do know that the ati driver does not work with the X800 cards at this moment. The vesa driver generally works, and the fglrx if it's installed properly. I think it has to do with the unwillingness of ATI to provide specs on its chips after the 9200, but I don't know enough about how the open source driver is developed to say that for sure. I could easily be totally off there. Specifically, the autodetection problem makes it impossible to run ubuntu/kubuntu from the live cd on this card, because there is no way around the auto-detection. Using Dapper Flight 6 Live CD, I attempted to use dpkg-reconfigure, but the restart of gdm failed. Maybe even trying that is evidence of my ignorance of how Live CDs work, but the problem exists either way.

Also, I'll try to provide my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files after I reinstall Flight 6 with an install CD. It could be a couple of days, though, because of other things, as a warning.