r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839]
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Release Notes for Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Software Updater |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
fglrx |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Intrepid |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Vogt | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Jaunty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Using fglrx-installer 2:8.543-0ubuntu4, r3xx hardware such as Radeon 9500, Mobility Radeon 9700 and similar don't work
They are not explicitly listed in the modaliases, so they will not be offered by Jockey. In the past, this hardware did work with the fglrx driver. Now the fglrx driver indicates memory errors when trying to load.
Here is a snippet of what the memory error will look like:
[ 1024.699204] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1169 MBytes.
[ 1024.700616] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
[ 1024.700683] [fglrx:
[ 1024.700757] [fglrx:
WORKAROUND:
You'll need to completely remove the proprietary driver and [re]install the open-source driver. As a plus, many users report improved performance with the open-source drivers in Intrepid versus ATI's fglrx in Hardy for 2D purposes such as normal desktop use and video playback.
1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-
3. sudo apt-get install xserver-
4. Restart.
TEST CASE:
1. Install intrepid w/ r3xx hardware.
2. attempt to activate fglrx and reboot verifying unable to start X
3. Activate intrepid-proposed
4. update to new fglrx version, verify that X starts up properly
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
assignee: | nobody → superm1 |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in fglrx-installer: | |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in fglrx: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in update-manager: | |
assignee: | nobody → mvo |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → intrepid-updates |
status: | New → In Progress |
status: | New → Invalid |
description: | updated |
Changed in fglrx-installer: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Triaged |
Changed in fglrx-installer: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
Changed in fglrx-installer: | |
milestone: | none → intrepid-updates |
Changed in fglrx-installer: | |
milestone: | intrepid-updates → none |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in update-manager: | |
milestone: | jaunty-alpha-1 → jaunty-alpha-2 |
Changed in fglrx-installer: | |
status: | Fix Released → Triaged |
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in fglrx-installer: | |
status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
Changed in fglrx-installer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
Changed in fglrx: | |
status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
assignee: | Mario Limonciello (superm1) → nobody |
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:017c]
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Kernel modules: radeonfb