[Video] Ati Mobility Radeon X2300 e Kubuntu Jaunty

[Guest]

Hi,
ask to fantastic community support linux, the problem is as follows:

I'm trying to figure out if my video card is supported by the ATI Catalyst drivers 9.4 or not.
Let me start by saying that I use Kubuntu Jaunty x86_64 and that the command:

lspci | grep VGA

I shall return:

 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon X2300

I have seen visiting the wiki http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Hardware/Video/Ati/Radeon that my card is not supported by radeon driver;
I have seen visiting the wiki http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Hardware/Video/Ati/RadeonHd that my card is supported but that the RadeonHD drivers do not provide 3D acceleration and support the extension AIGLX;

I tried to install the catalyst 9.4 drivers since my card is not listed among those not supported anymore, but just giving the command:

 aticonfig - initial-f

I get this warning:

 aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

which means? is supported but not the notes?
I am also interested to understand: what is the difference between the open driver installed by default in kubuntu or xserver-xorg-video-ati and Radeonhd or xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd? which to use?
Could you help me understand what is the best way to exploit my sk. Video? thanks

sorry for my English, I used google translate.I'm italian.

[Guest]

Re: [Video] Ati Mobility Radeon X2300 e Kubuntu Jaunty

up!! please help me!!

[andybleaden]

Re: [Video] Ati Mobility Radeon X2300 e Kubuntu Jaunty

no problem...let us see if we can help

Have you tried this

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

This is from ATI but it is closed source ...so the people at UBUNTU cannot fiddle with it to help us

The other drivers you mention might be open source. On the face of it better but not working for me at the mo

This should also install other related software such as amdcccle etc

This did eventually work for me

Then in Kmenu I select under application/system- Hardware Drivers

This then activated the fglrx driver

I then had to restart my pc

When I then ran lspci | grep VGA

It showed I was running with the fglrx driver

Perhaps look here also

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3103749.0

[ssri]

Re: [Video] Ati Mobility Radeon X2300 e Kubuntu Jaunty

 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon X2300

Sorry, but our video chip (RV575/M64) is no longer supported in new Catalyst releases starting with 9.4, which coincidentally is the first version that is compatible with x server 1.6.0 in Jaunty. Catalyst 9.3 (which I'm using) is compatible only up to x server 1.5.2 (in Intrepid). So, in Jaunty you are out of luck when it comes to proprietary drivers, ain't AMD/ATI great? So, if you want video, you have to use radeonhd (http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd). I tried the opensource drivers on Intrepid, and I got fed up with the refresh artifacts that pop up whenever I tried to move a window. I also played around with different accelmethod's in my xorg.conf. Anyways, as of the moment, 3D acceleration through opensource drivers is poor when compared to fglrx. Otherwise, 2D performance should be better than fglrx (although I think 2D performance in catalyst 9.3 is fine enough). Lately, there have been issues with screen freezes when using the opensource drivers.

Anyways, to make a long story short, if you want to use your laptop's ati card in Jaunty, then you have to go through opensource drivers. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonHD

Usually, the plain vanilla /etc/X11/xorg.conf should work. To set it as such enter (make a backup before using this command):

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

If not, then the hints in the wiki should help. If not, I hope your xorgconf-fu is strong. How is this for being user friendly?

As for myself, I tried recent git builds of radeonhd in intrepid, and I could not get rid of those damn horizontal lines. I am not going to upgrade to jaunty until I can install working opensource drivers in intrepid, I do not personally care for 100% 3D acceleration since I do not play games. However, I would like a fully functional desktop environment, which is the case for me in Intrepid.