Comments on: Fix Ubuntu 9.04 ATI Driver Issue

By: michal

michal — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:12:39 +0000

Thank you Tyler, thanks to you I have finally set up hardware acceleration on linux after trying (from time to time of course ) for 3 years to do it :]

By: bwana

bwana — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:16:17 +0000

I am sorry to hear that your fix will not work for karmic(ubuntu 9.1) an a radeon x1900 card. Have you heard of any successes in that area which I might investigate-googling hasnt been fruitful for me.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:19:53 +0000

If you remove everything this tutorial covers, and then make sure it gets installed back, then everything “should” be perfectly fine.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:11:36 +0000

Again, thank you for replying so soon to my messages.

Apologies, looks like I ran into a problem. I ran through the process and restarted, but unfortunately I don’t get a display anymore, just the command line.

I think I might know where the problem was. When I got to this step: “Once the repositories are updated, make sure all ATI drivers are uninstalled.”, I wasn’t very sure of what to do. I went to synaptic package manager, searched for ATI, and uninstalled the ATI display driver. I’m not sure if this is correct. Any ideas?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:01:16 +0000

The last steps switch it back to jaunty. That’s why you copy the sources list before the downgrade.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:05:46 +0000

Thanks! I’ll try that tonight then!

Another quick one- if I change my sources list to intrepid, does that mean all my repositries from then on will be for intrepid, rather than jaunty? Would it be a good idea to change the sources list to jaunty once this has been completed?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:52:29 +0000

You will lock anything that starts with xserver-xorg and fglrx.

Also lock xorg-driver-fglrx, libdrm2, gnome-session, and fast-user-switch-applet.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:49:01 +0000

Hi Tyler, this looks real promising! I’ve been looking for this kind of fix for a while now. There are things I love about 9.04, but the graphics just killed me, now there’s hope!

One problem. I’m not sure exactly which packages I’m supposed to lock! I want to get it right, so would you mind expanding on that instruction?

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By: Alb_Erc

Alb_Erc — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:23:39 +0000

Thank you so much for this article. I’ve been a year disappointed with Ubuntu because my graphic card didn’t work. But now, my pc works perfectly.

Thanks again!