Installing Radeon X600 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
 

Hey,
I'm kind of new to Linux, but I believe that with your help I'll manage..

I'm using a regular PC not Laptop with ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)] and Ubuntu 10.04 TLS.

I want to use compiz, so I installed it from Ubuntu software manager, but it is not working.
After I understood that it is because of the graphics adapter I downloaded the driver for Linux x86 from ATI's web, and when I tried to install the .run file I got this:
Also I installed Catalyst and it said something like no adapters installed.

I read some threads around here and understood that Ati no more provides drivers for Ubuntu 10.04 for my adapter.

What can I do?

Thanks,
Rotem

See here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0-04-a-806379/

There is supposed to be fglrx (the driver) in software center

However ATI move older cards to the group of unsupported cards (there is driver but it is not compatible with the newer Xorg release that is in the sytem)

If thats the case :

Use the open source driver. It can get compiz to work on some cards, even work quite well sometimes

Install older version of Ubuntu or other Linux system and upgrade everything except Xorg and the driver

Hey,
I didn't find anything on the link.
I installed catalyst again from the Ubuntu software center, but I can't find the driver for my card there.. All I see is 9XXX group..

Can you help me finding the driver?

Is your card on the supported list ?

If no then Ati moved it to the legacy driver, which is said to be incompatible with the system in the thread i linked to

In this case the driver wont work

No, my card is in the non supported list as far as I see and know..

So there is nothing to do about it? :(

Use the open source "ati" / "radeon" driver. I use it with 9250 and Kwin compoziting (equiv to Compiz) and it works

Install older OS with older Xorg and drivers, from a time when the card was still supported. Update everything else except Xorg and the drivers. Ubuntu 8.X LTS might work for you

Ijust checked synaptic itshows that they are there, the xorg packages.
compare to this thread.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=61977

"is not working" is not informative. compiz is perfectly capable of running on the open source drivers that Ubuntu 10.04 ships with for the radeon X600. They are the only possible drivers you can use for that video card that will provide 3D acceleration in any recent distribution. If compiz is not working with those drivers, tell us what, exactly, isn't working so we can help you.

Adam

@Adam
This is the error:

Thanks again.

This one helped me get it working
http://www.howtoforge.com/enabling-c...a-geforce-8200

Show us your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and the output of 'glxinfo'.

1. I attached the log.

2.
This is what you meant?

That is exactly what I was looking for. And here's the source of your problem:

You still have part of fglrx (the proprietary driver from AMD) installed. You will need to remove is entirely. If it wasn't installed via synaptic or the driver manager, there should be an uninstall script in /usr/share/ati/ . You can try running that to remove fglrx.

Adam

I removed it using .
Under /usr/share/ati/ there was only one file before I removed the 'fglrx' and now the directory is gone.

What next?
B.T.W earlier when I opened compiz my screen flashed and than the computer was kind of stuck until I rebooted from the physical button..

The new glxinfo:

And your new /var/log/Xorg.0.log file?

Adam