Ubuntu Edgy & ATI X1900

[Robor]

I installed Edgy on the 'Desktop' system in my sig and had no issues with the install but if I run 'glxgears' I get the message 'Xlib: Extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".' and outputs ~580-590 fps. My much weaker/slower laptop gives the message 'libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b' but reports 1700+ fps.

I've tried both the xserver-xorg-driver-ati and xserver-xorg-fglrx and did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and restarted the gdm in both attempts. The first driver works (what I'm using now) and the 2nd one hangs while booting (before starting X) and reports no errors in ~./xsession-errors.

The reason I'm is I'm trying to get beryl & aixgl working. I've got it working on my 'Server' box in my sig and it's really nice. I'm hoping to get it working on my 'Desktop' box as well but no luck so far... :-/

 

[nweaver]

I just installed xserver-xorg-fglrx and modified my xorg.conf and it was working fine...

 

[Brazen]

There is an article on how to install ATI drivers in the Ubuntu wiki, but it's pretty ambiguous about which driver is best to use. If I remember from when I read it, it claimed that one of the drivers was problematic, but did not tell which one I have an ATI Mobile 9600 and would like to know the same thing.

 

[aidanjm]

what is a good graphics card to have with Linux/ Ubuntu? is nvidia preferred over ati or the other way round?

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
what is a good graphics card to have with Linux/ Ubuntu? is nvidia preferred over ati or the other way round?

nvidia. don't bother at all with ati

 

[drag]

If you want 3d acceleration you need to install both the fglrx xsever driver and the fglrx kernel driver for that card.

 

[nweaver]

if you apt-get install xorg-xserver-fglrx or whatever the package is, and the linux-restricted-modules for that kernel, then change your xorg.conf from ATI to fglrx it SHOULD work...


as far as support goes, there is a posting in the Ubuntu forums stating which drivers support which cards, iirc they dropped support for some older cards in the later versions.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: nweaver
if you apt-get install xorg-xserver-fglrx or whatever the package is, and the linux-restricted-modules for that kernel, then change your xorg.conf from ATI to fglrx it SHOULD work...


as far as support goes, there is a posting in the Ubuntu forums stating which drivers support which cards, iirc they dropped support for some older cards in the later versions.

I'm using an X1900XTX and that exact procedure stops my system pre-X (hense my post). My system is in my sig (Desktop).

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Brazen
There is an article on how to install ATI drivers in the Ubuntu wiki, but it's pretty ambiguous about which driver is best to use. If I remember from when I read it, it claimed that one of the drivers was problematic, but did not tell which one I have an ATI Mobile 9600 and would like to know the same thing.

The ATI Mobile 9600 in my laptop works fine but is dog slow in beryl & aixgl. I'm not sure if that's normal given the hardware though.

Edit: I should add my laptop is stable with or without beryl and aixgl. However, it's too slow to be useful. Instead I use standard Gnome without issues. My 'Server' in my sig works great with ati (9800 pro), beryl, and aixgl but I don't use it much. My main system at home is my Desktop (in sig) and has some pretty decent hardware that I'd like to be able to take advantage of. Can I use it with beryl & aixgl?

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: Brazen
There is an article on how to install ATI drivers in the Ubuntu wiki, but it's pretty ambiguous about which driver is best to use. If I remember from when I read it, it claimed that one of the drivers was problematic, but did not tell which one I have an ATI Mobile 9600 and would like to know the same thing.

The ATI Mobile 9600 in my laptop works fine but is dog slow in beryl & aixgl. I'm not sure if that's normal given the hardware though.

Edit: I should add my laptop is stable with or without beryl and aixgl. However, it's too slow to be useful. Instead I use standard Gnome without issues. My 'Server' in my sig works great with ati (9800 pro), beryl, and aixgl but I don't use it much. My main system at home is my Desktop (in sig) and has some pretty decent hardware that I'd like to be able to take advantage of. Can I use it with beryl & aixgl?

gotta be the drivers...i have a geforce2 gts-v that runs compiz without a problem on 1280*1024

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: Brazen
There is an article on how to install ATI drivers in the Ubuntu wiki, but it's pretty ambiguous about which driver is best to use. If I remember from when I read it, it claimed that one of the drivers was problematic, but did not tell which one I have an ATI Mobile 9600 and would like to know the same thing.

The ATI Mobile 9600 in my laptop works fine but is dog slow in beryl & aixgl. I'm not sure if that's normal given the hardware though.

Edit: I should add my laptop is stable with or without beryl and aixgl. However, it's too slow to be useful. Instead I use standard Gnome without issues. My 'Server' in my sig works great with ati (9800 pro), beryl, and aixgl but I don't use it much. My main system at home is my Desktop (in sig) and has some pretty decent hardware that I'd like to be able to take advantage of. Can I use it with beryl & aixgl?

Are you using the default drivers or did you install the fglx driver like what mweaver and dag talked about? I've only ever used the default driver and it is solid, no problems, but I would like to have 3d acceleration.

 

[Robor]

magomago: I wonder if it's just the ATI drivers? Even on my 'server' system in my sig - which is a lot faster than my laptop in CPU & video - beryl works fine but isn't exactly snappy. On the laptop it works and it's stable but it's too slow to actually use.

nweaver & Brazen: I tried 'xserver-xorg-video-ati' and 'xorg-driver-fglrx'. Each time I did a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. On the former (ati) driver I selected 'ati' and on the latter (fglrx) I selected 'fglrx'. After reconfiguring my xorg.conf I rebooted. On restart using the ati driver works but attempts to start beryl (running 'beryl-settings' from a command line) locked X. I could ctrl-alt-bksp and log back in without issue but beryl wouldn't run. Using the fglrx driver freezes the system on boot before X even starts. There are no errors in ~/.xsession-errors.

 

[nweaver]

I ddin't dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, I just edited xorg.conf by hand. The WIKI says you can run aticonfig (or something like that) --initial as well, but that can bork your monitor settings, so I did it by hand.

I have an M300 in my Dell D810 laptop, and it works good, fairly snappy. I'm now wondering what Beryl gets me besides the cube and bouncy moving windows...

 

[nweaver]

Which driver (not sure if this is anybody here's card)
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Something close to what I followed (only I didn't run the --initial command)
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[TanisHalfElven]

i alwasys install the ati drivers from the ati website for ubuntu.
i follow this here wiki
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI