Comment 3 for bug 356508

I'm glad I have been of some help to you. Have a great time with you ATI graphic card.
                                                                                             HammerHead66

--- On Wed, 4/22/09, Heitzso <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Heitzso <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Bug 356508] Re: radeon 3300 locks up screen w/ any driver
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 7:23 AM

I installed recent proprietary driver and it works now.  Let me know if
someone wants me to try out radeon/radeonhd or other driver.
> try this
>
> For Ubuntu 8.04 Linux ATI Radeon Drivers.
>
>  Here you go follow just like it says to or it will not work right. (
> and no terminal is not terminal)
>
> 1. Install Linux, if you have not already done so.   (if you have already installed drivers for your card in Linux and they are not working see step #11 on the How-To.)
> 2. Go to http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx and download drivers to your desktop. (make sure to make this file executable.)
> 3. On desktop text upper left side go to /System/Admin/Hardware drivers and enable card do not restart at this time.
> 4. On desktop text upper left side go to /Applications/Accessories/Terminal
> 5. Type   ----------->      cd Desktop
> 6. Type   ----------->      dir
> 7. Type   ----------->      sudo ./ATI_DRIVER
> 8. Install driver
> 9. Wait a long time
> 10.Restart
>
> Tell me if you have any problems      IRC room  #ubuntu
>
>
>  11.On desktop text upper left side go to /Applications/Accessories/Terminal
>         type   ----------->     sudo apt-get --purge remove
>         go back to step #2.
>

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radeon 3300 locks up screen w/ any driver
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Status in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
This may be a duplicate of 284408, but is more general than that bug report (I added a comment to it).

I recently upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 beta.  Under 8.10 I had run fglrx driver downloaded from ati web site.

Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-MA790GP with built in radeon hd3300 and 4 G of RAM (all slots filled). I've tried radeon, radeonhd, vesa, and fglrx drivers.  I've also tried to build most recent radeonhd from git, and the most recent fglrx driver from amd/ati web site.  In all cases the screen freezes and then you cannot even ctrl-alt-f1 over to a console.  It is possible to ssh into the box.  (Note that latest fglrx driver from ati does not install due to version of X, etc., so it does not freeze, it just does not install.)

Googling around it seems the problem may be related to having all memory slots filled, i.e. if I pull two memory sticks and drop back to 2G then it might work.  I haven't tried that. But that might explain why someone might believe 3300 works in Jaunty, if they tested on a system without all memory slots filled.

I will be glad to assist in debugging this, but I'd appreciate working w/ someone on Ubuntu's side who has an idea of what the problem might be so I'm not just shooting in the dark.  I've lost a good bit of time trying to get some version of X running (all failed) and the system is down for the count until I get this fixed.  Thanks.

I may well have messed up my system by trying to compile radeonhd from git for it to get something to work.