Proprietary Driver for Ubuntu 9.04: Fglrx for X Server 1.6
By Canonical's Bryce Harrington's account, AMD has delivered an ATI driver that should be compatible with the X Server 1.6 found in, among other places, Ubuntu 9.04.
Users of ATI graphics cards are used to some grief. Added to the chaos that many coexisting drivers can cause, now comes the announcement that commercial driver support for some pretty recent graphics cards is available. Insight comes from Bryce Harrington in an Ubuntu mailing list. AMD/ATI is providing a commercial driver, the fglrx 6.800, that should work with X Server 1.6.
That's welcome news. Up to now, the buzz has been that Ubuntu Jaunty users would have 2D support on their ATI graphics cards only. According to Harrington, the new fglrx driver, which passed the XSmoke test, is a prerelease of a Catalyst 9.4 driver that should appear somewhere in the next two weeks. Harrington has packaged it in fglrx-installer 2:8.600-0ubuntu1. The downside is that the newest generation of the driver doesn't support any of the "older" ATI chipsets, which at this point include the R300 through R500 chipsets.
Harrington recommends using the open "ati" drivers for the older cards (where "ati" is a wrapper for the radeon and radeonhd drivers). The open source driver currently supports ATI cards from Radeon 7000 through Radeon HD 4870 with 2D and the R500 through R700 generations with rudimentary 3D support over DRI.
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ATi Needs Ubuntu Drivers... NOW.
Now this was back in the days of 8.04. Ubuntu found the restricted drivers, installed them, and I was up and running... sort of. Lots of stuff didn´t work, but at least I had the drivers. Then 8.10 came along and it automatically got the new drivers. Nice. Then 9.04 came along. And I have yet to find a working driver for my X1270 (I think, it might be an X1170 though) so now I am stuck with crappy looking graphics, buggy system performance, and slow response times.
GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, ATi. WE NEED A BETTER SYSTEM FOR DRIVERS! MAKE IT AUTOMATED AND MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT YOUR CUSTOMERS. I WILL NEVER AGAIN BUY AMD/ATi AND THIS IS MY REASON - YOU SUCK. GET IT TOGETHER.
Thank you.
Bye bye AMD/ATI
Cannot view any video
you're the greatest
ATI 4850 Kubuntu 9.04 --> barely-usable system
I installed a new video card a couple of months ago, the the ATI 4850. Ever since, I have had an unstable system: long pauses in accepting input or updating the display, and the GUI crashes at least once per day, so that I have to log in from a different system and restart kdm. Sometimes that doesn't work, the system is dead.
I chose ATI because I thought they were going open source with their drivers. Whatever the reason, I will not buy ATI equipment any more until I read about much better support for Linux.
This video card is a disaster.
Lesson Learned
ATI Sucks
All development at ATI Markhamm, Canada is a mess, management sucks,
everiting sucks. Their cards sucks as well, I ddid not get how AMD made a
deal with these guys. They are not able to get a driver working. The mess
has deep roots and cannot be removed.
ATI no support
No more ati
No more ati for me. GF only !!!
ATI should go open source
Dual monitor setup? - Haha, what a joke.
Triple monitor? - What was I thinking?
I thnk that drivers should be more easily accessible to the public, especially if a company is not willing/able to provide up-to-date software.
Remember the outcry about Daniel_K (about a year ago), when he got jumped upon by Creative Labs? Over 2000 blog entries within a couple of days!
See <a href="http://forums.creative.com/...ascending&page=1">
It is simply ridiculous that my video card (ATI Mobile Radeon X1400) is considered a "legacy product" after 2 years.
(How old is Windows XP?...)
So - what choice do I have? I will return to Ubuntu 8.10 and wait. And wait. And probably join the fate of good old Pluto.
FUCKIN LOLOLOL BOYCOTT ATI
No more ati for me.
add me to the list
He found out Ati isn't going to provide a driver for Windows 7 either. That at least makes me feel better. I still wish I hadn't gotten this card. Anybody wanna trade for a Nvidia card? I really only need halfway decent 3D.
no big problems...
The most painfull one is that when fullscreen, video acceleration works fine(even full HD), but when windowed, not a chance...flash doesn't accelerate anything at all(this sux most)...
On the other hand, everything(that I want) worked straight from the start, it's the main reason why I switched from OpenSuSE 11(no wifi support)...
p.s. I completely aggree that if ATi can't do it right, they should let others at least try...
Turn back to the default dirver of ati card of ubuntu 9.04 after frozed by the proprietary driver .
step2 Choose "Recovery Mode" at grub menu;
step3 sudo apt-get autoremove xorg-driver-fglr, and choose "yes";
step4 Reboot again; Choose "Recovery Mode",Choose "xfix ...";
step5 After "xfix ..." Resume Normal Boot
OK
my ATI 4870 X2 works now in Ubuntu 9.04
I don't know if you can install the driver from the restricted driver manager / repository and use the above command to fix it, but the default install does not work, either from the repository or from AMD's site.
I downloaded the ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run from their site and ran it using --buildpkg Ubuntu/9.04 (as it instructs you to do if you select the build package option instead of just straight installing it, that way you can easily remove the packages if it doesn't work later).
Then after installing all the packages, and running "sudo aticonfig --initial", I was able to reboot and have a functional desktop.
BTW, the stupid restarting X hotkey control-alt-backspace issue is resolved by installing the "dontzap" package and running "sudo dontzap -d".
4870x2
Ati's fault
Good thing Update Manager (on 8.10) warned me that fglrx doesn't work with 9.04 before starting to install stuff! (Thank you, Canonical!)
@Aubs: Fedora's next release (rawhide) will have the same problem as Ubuntu 9.04.
The versions of Fedora you mentioned are just older than Ubuntu 9.04, and therefore (thru Fedora 10) Fedora doesn't use v.1.6 of Xorg-server ...yet. Distrowatch.org says Fedora's next release will use Xorg-server 1.6.1, which is incompatible with ATi's driver (FGLRX). So, please RTFM (or read the article and related articles, as the case may be...) before bashing Ubuntu again, because you'll sound a lot less clueless if you open your eyes/ears BEFORE you open your mouth and falsely accuse Ubuntu/Cannonical of being the only one w/this problem and the cause of it.
But, I will blame Ubuntu's team for 1 thing: FGLRX doesn't install for the countless people who replied above (and didn't work for me) as _simply_ as Cannonical's Harrington described in this March 18th article, and I do think Ubuntu is wrong to not warn people on their 'downloads' page and in Known Issues etc, that fglrx may take some extra steps (to make it stable in 9.04), because if Ubuntu made a warning that's conspicuous (to override Harrington's obviously-faulty March 18th proclamation that FGLRX now is stable just by downloading the latest version that Ubuntu's servers offer...), you wouldn't see so many angry replies above, you wouldn't have people waste time and bandwidth downloading the FGLRX package and then un-doing the damage it does to 9.04, and then the wasted time we all spend googling to see bug-reports for _why_ our FGLRX download killed the 9.04 Jaunty that we just freshly installed, and how to make FGLRX work with Xorg-server 1.6 and getting several different answers.
I've seen many people saying FGLRX works if you input "sudo aticonfig --initial" (in terminal/konsole, after installing FGLRX but _before_ rebooting...), apparently it inserts a "DefaultDepth 24" under section "screen" of xorg.conf, and possibly inserts more into xorg.conf...but I haven't tried that yet. I just came across this webpage in google after my Jaunty installation got FUBAR'ed by ATi's driver 2 hours ago.
ATI video card support for Ubuntu
Ubunt 9.04 install problem with ATI HD3650 card
Bad work by ATI
stupid driver
9.04 / hd 3650
I'm sitting right in front of my brand new laptop trying to get the ati card working. All I need is some 3D acceleration for working with blender 3D. Hell - why didn't I look closer to the hardware, why didn't I buy Nvidia?
My screen goes black when I start X. No keyboard input is accepted anymore.
If I really learnt something during the last two days of trying around - never ever by a machine with ATI on board!! Since years I was using Linux on Nvidia systems without serious problems.
By the way, currently my machine runs under Ubuntu's live session - the only way to get it work.
9.04 4780x2
I got my 4870x2 partially working. I had the same problems as most ppl had with a corrupt login screen. I deleted the fglrx package. Booted with the normal package and got a screen. Then I installed the fglrx package went through the aticonfig command and set up the card with that. Still having trouble with setting up xfire on a single screen so thats what Im working on now. Films flicker when being played but thats the xfire problem. Hope that helps a bit.
Same thing with my brand new ATI 4850 Card
I had to use my laptop to google for answers to get my desktop back to at least some workable fashion. After some extensive digging and inputted the commands in CLI I was finally able to get my desktop back, not in hi-rez I wanted but it's still usable.
Thanks alot ATI for putting folks like us in this mess. ATI makes awesome cards but their driver support isn't worth for two-shits for Linux folks. Last I heard Nivida makes decent Linux drivers, not perfect but it's workable solution.
I hope they release 9.5 that we CAN use!!
Ubuntu 9.04 + 4870x2 R700 9.4 Drivers are no good
I really tried to do anything possible and whatever I know ...nothing helped I think at this point this is something too new and totally not working. If anyone know how to fix it we are all ears...Thanks !
fuck AMD/ATI
without VGA driver, some compiz effect can't be good (dust line , can't have gaussian blur...)
FUCK AMD-ATI
What?
I am not amd fanboy and yes they have been crapping all over us lately. However that said wasn't it Intel came out with (low IPC/x64/integrated Nbridge/paralell processing idea AFTER AMD? Seems to me your backwards which makes you sound stupid.
lower resolution + open driver
Granted it's not the 1920x1200 i'm used to, but at least i got the system working now without the need for me to move files around and reinstall 8.04, to upgrade to 8.10. Not sure if there's an easy path going backwards...
My system is a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, with a Radeon x300
Shit...
Freeze X display
ATI/AMD has sucked through time
I hope that AMD changes its policies, or now supplier is continuing to sell AMD products.
Till then, F*CK YOU ATI&AMD.
No ATI joy here, either
ubuntu 9.04 fglrx crash on radeon 9600
that's the last time I buy a machine with an ATI graphics
AMD/ATI
Tryied to install the -radeon driver and it didn't work.. instead, my computer stopped working, it didn't even start again, used to crash every time on X startup. At the end, I lost all my files and lost every single file that was in that computer. I hope ATI take some providence, as soon as possible.
Ubuntu 9.04 and AMD/ATI Radeon HD2*00 - no go so far...
What I am getting as a fault is no panels, and apparently the screen size is larger than the monitor - BUT - rearranging the icons keeps them to the screen size displayed. strange.
The native drivers and the AMD/ATI 9.4 drivers don't work now. Details here on Ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1133931
ATI/AMD One Long Sad History of Dropping the Ball
More ways to mess up an install
Very disappointing indeed. - don't try it.
NO support fot ati x1xxx
if you have ati x1xxx don't install ubuntu 9.4 !!!
Proprietary Driver for Ubuntu 9.04: Fglrx for X Server 1.6
The open source driver is only good to play a tux racer, very sluggish performance.
I've tried to install the latest ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run from ATI web site but it gives an error: "Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.28-11-generic;"
I've installed then Fglrx through package manager but it made computer freeze.
I found funny that recovery mode has option to fix video related problems which was useless in my case.
I've tied to reconfigure xserver: dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg without success.
Eventually I had to remove Fglrx driver.
My opinion is: dont't upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 if you have ATI video card
Freeze
Freezes my X
causes computer to freeze
Radeon Xpress 1250
The other drivers are really slow!
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