No luck with ATI drivers for a Mobility 9200 in Ubuntu

akarimco · 07-06-2006, 09:12 AM

For the life of me, between SuSE 10 and Ubuntu 6.06, I'm going to become an alcoholic. I simply cannot get my Mobility Radeon 9200 to work right. I followed a guide which included how to set up FGLRX drivers, and yet fglrxinfo keeps telling me that it's using Mesa. I remember in SuSE 10 that whenever I tried to install ATI's drivers using their little proggie on their site that I'd almost always kill my xorg.conf file in some way and Linux would die on me. I'm not a complete noob, but for the sake of any help it may be beneficial to pretend I am one. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this!

zeroability · 07-06-2006, 09:33 AM

Which version of the driver are you using? I am currently using 8.22.5 because it's the only one that works for me (mobility x300). I, too, am using suse 10 (retail) and found that if you download the rpm (not the installer) for xorg 6.8.0 and follow these steps you are almost guaranteed some degree of safety:

Code:

root@linux# init 3
root@linux# modprobe -r drm
root@linux# modprobe -r radeon
root@linux# sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
root@linux# init 5 && exit

You will want to make sure everything looks right when sax2 loads. You can verify the fglrx module loaded using:

Code:

user@linux# lsmod | grep fglrx

If it returns a response then you are good.
With ubuntu, I am pretty sure you can just use the installer, but you have to uninstall the previous fglrx drivers included with the install. Then you have to use the aticonfig utility to modify the xorg.conf unless you REALLY know what you are doing. Or you can opt to generate a disto specific package for ubuntu using the:

Code:

root@linux#  ./ati*.run --get-supported

Then you can use the rpm for ubuntu. It was so much easier when they used the fglrxconfig utility.

I hope that helps.