ATI Radeon 9250 not working

[Luc]

Has anyone got this card to work with Feisty? I've tried Envy and several manual install instructions to no avail. Neither Fglrx or the open source drivers work and at best I'm left with a console terminal with no way of getting X started. Well at least until I log in and restore my backup of xorg.conf and change the monitor back to the onboard Intel, which is about 4x slower than using the ATI card under Edgy.

Out of curiosity how hard would it be to add an "xorg-driver-fglrx-legacy" to the repository for the 8.28.8 driver?

[Fintan]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

I have had the same problem with the same card.. Fooling around with the ati prop. drivers was not fun especially fglrx. I'll send you the parts of my xorg.cong and you can see if they help you:

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI RADEON 9250"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
EndSection

Then:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI RADEON 9250"
Monitor "Standardbildschirm"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Ofcourse you'll have to modify this to your needs.
Don't forget to add this if it isn't there already:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

I hope this helps, but don't kill me if it doesn't

[andy_england1985]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

I have this problem, too. I've always had display issues ever since 5.10, but 7.04 takes the biscuit. I can't change the refresh rate to 70 as it's supposed to be and, if I do, the screen defaults to 640 x 480 and gets stuck there until I replace xorg.conf with the original.

[Fintan]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

HOw about this:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Standardbildschirm"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-65
VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection

[andy_england1985]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

I got the resolution sorted by reconfiguring the X package, but the driver problem still exists. Will this be fixed so that I can update 7.04 and get it working? I had hoped to migrate full-time to Linux with 7.04, but I don't want to set my system up, only to break it whilst attempting to get the ATI driver working. I've done that once too often for my liking!

[SheeEttin]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

I guess the best thing to do would be to remove all instances of the old driver, download the latest version, compile it, etc.
Have you used this guide?

[Luc]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

Fintan; Thanks for the info I'll give it another go in the morning hours. I should have noted that this is a PCI based card and not the AGP based card. But with the info you posted and some further digging about I think I can now get it working.

SheeEttin; The latest fglrx driver supports Radeon 9500+ and the X-series cards up to X1900. and going about the manner of method 2 yielded a broken system. That was my first stop when I gave it ago.

Also to note I had to dump Feisty and reinstall Edgy this morning after mucking it up pretty bad doing things that I know I should not do. This time I'll do an install while leaving Edgy untouched. I know I should have done that to start with but as I like breaking things and seeing just how much I can push a system before it breaks I figured it was time for a fresh start so why not blast Edgy while I was at it. That was two days ago and after beating myself up for a while with Feisty trying to get this one piece of hardware going it was time to reinstall Edgy. Not that I'm giving up on Feisty by any means. I figured that I should get the system back running like the wife likes it before she started putting some knots on my head.

To others that are following if I get this sorted I'll do my best to post complete instructions and details on how I achieve it. Most likely this will be with the open source driver as the Fglrx driver from Ati is at best a mess.

[Fintan]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

as the Fglrx driver from Ati is at best a mess. AAAmen.

Have fun

[SheeEttin]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

If you do it by yourself, yeah, a mess.
I was able to do it pretty cleanly, once I found a bit of help.
I'm going to have to write a script one of these days to do it automatically.

[Fintan]

Re: ATI Radeon 9250 not working

Somewhere between 2-8 million people will love you for that.