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02-10-2010, 11:43 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2008
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Ati radeon 4350 black screen
I get a black screen whether I use Ubuntu's driver or ATI's driver, but when I use the default it works fine without an desktop effects. Catalyst installed without any errors.
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02-10-2010, 05:04 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Sep 2009
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Maybe try the open-source "xf86-video-ati" driver (be sure to uninstall Catalyst first)?
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02-10-2010, 06:40 PM
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Registered: May 2006
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MTK358, he did say "when I use the default it works fine". The default one would be the open source -ati driver.
andrew2325, I've used a HD4350 with the catalyst drivers Ubuntu packaged for 9.10 but, of course, each users success is going to vary depending on the exactly hardware in their machine. If you can't get the catalyst drivers working, you could try using an updated version of the open source drivers which do support 3D acceleration. You could install it using the xorg-edgers PPA:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
It would also require a newer kernel, which I believe you can get from the kernel PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~kernel-ppa/+archive/ppa
Unfortunately, I have no experience with either of these, so I wouldn't really be able to assist if you ran into problems.
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02-10-2010, 06:55 PM
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Registered: Sep 2009
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xf86-video-ati provides acceleration. Why not use it? Did you try to enable desktop effects with the "default" driver?
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02-10-2010, 06:56 PM
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Registered: May 2006
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The version in Ubuntu 9.10 provides 2D acceleration only. 3D acceleration wasn't in a usable state at the time 9.10 was released, though it is now.
Adam
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02-11-2010, 07:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by adamk75
The version in Ubuntu 9.10 provides 2D acceleration only. 3D acceleration wasn't in a usable state at the time 9.10 was released, though it is now.
Adam
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Isn't Ubuntu 9.10 the newest?
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02-11-2010, 07:25 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2006
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Yes. But that still doesn't change the fact that 3D acceleration wasn't really in a usable state at the time 9.10 was released.
Adam
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02-11-2010, 01:50 PM
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The default ati driver doesn't work either. I was talking about the regular old vga driver or whatever that comes with Ubuntu.
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02-11-2010, 01:54 PM
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Registered: May 2006
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What happens when you try to use the 'ati' or 'radeon' driver, then? I still stand by my suggestion that if fglrx won't work for you, you might be better off trying to get newer versions of the radeon driver to work. It functions quite well these days, particularly with desktop effects, and even with many games such as ut2004, openarena, even doom3 (if the kernel and driver are new enough).
Adam
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