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    gutsy install broke some ati radeon functionality

    installed 7.10 yesterday; with the exception of one minor problem it was the fastest and easiest linux upgrade i've ever experienced. but . . .

    my ati radeon 9000 (RL250) video card w/128 megs onboard has lost some functionality. running glxgears, for instance, causes video corruption. viewing images in applications such as the pan newsreader results in corruption of the bottom 2/3 to 3/4 of the image. i have run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' to no apparent effect; i have tried both the 'ati' and the 'fglrx' drivers -- i used to use the 'radeon' driver, but this no longer seems among the possibilities.

    there is supposedly a new and improved gui configurator, but i have not been able to find it.

    advice?

    thanks.
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    Re: gutsy install broke some ati radeon functionality

    Which driver do you normally use, and which version of the fglrx driver do you have installed?
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      Re: gutsy install broke some ati radeon functionality

      good questions to which i do not necessarily have good answers. i normally use the radeon driver. the fglrx driver that got into one of the attempts to configure the thing is whatever came (or already existed) when i ran the upgrade yesterday. elsewhere on the forums i saw reference to the statistics rendered by fglrxinfo. tried to run that, but was informed that i needed to get/install an fglrx-something package. which, okay, i did. whether this brought a new driver, i do not know. i do know that where glxinfo previously reported that i had hardware dri support, it now tells me that i do not. so it just gets worse and worse.

      have manually edired xorg.conf to use the "radeon" driver, which seems at least to be stable, but which fixes nothing.

      what startles me is that until the upgrade, everything worked fine. and now i fear that by grabbing the new fglrx package i may have well and truly broken some stuff, with no clear path back out.
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        Re: gutsy install broke some ati radeon functionality

        You might consider using my script to install the driver... it'll do a proper install, and that might fix your current situation.

        If it doesn't, post back here.
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          Re: gutsy install broke some ati radeon functionality

          it's a very nice script, but the best i can tell it did nothing that i hadn't already done. not at all certain the current fglrx driver works with my radeon chipset; in any case, by changing the driver to fglrx after running your script x blows up before it gets around to displaying anything. so this isn't really the solution . . .

          what i guess i'm trying to determine is why the radeon server worked just fine yesterday in 7.04 and does not work just fine today in 7.10.
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            Re: gutsy install broke some ati radeon functionality

            Well, if you get no X server with the radeon driver, I'd tell it to use that driver, start it up, and when it fails, switch to a terminal and execute "startx". It'll come back with some errors, post those.
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              Re: gutsy install broke some ati radeon functionality

              i do a text-based boot and login and do the startx at the prompt as a matter of course -- i like to see what's going on during boot.

              the fglrx driver reports No matching Device for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

              whereupon it crashes without ever going to screen.
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                Re: gutsy install broke some ati radeon functionality

                Which version of the driver is this, and is your card at 1:0:0?

                Also, do you want to use the radeon or fglrx driver? If you want to use the radeon one, set it to that and then do startx.
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