That's a Mesa lib, but
THAT looks as if it's from some binary blob.

You can't mix those. I would uninstall any binary blob package. If you have an ATI-u.w.v.x.y.z.run file you can run that with an --uninstall or /uninstall ( or --help or some such)

Then reinstall mesa. Remove first if necessary. Then check the modules blacklist to make sure your modules aren't in there.

Okay I didn't have an uninstall script for anything ATI, so I just removed the link /usr/lib64/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.071100* and then renamed libGLU.so.1.3.071100 to append ".old" on the end. I hope that's sufficient.

As for uninstalling/reinstalling Mesa, I can't seem to do that without breaking a thousand dependencies, so kinda stuck on that.

My noobiness is definitely an impediment here, and so if this is too time-consuming or annoying on your end of things please don't just stick it out on my account!

There's a way to do this in every distribution.

If you set initdefault to 3 (in /etc/inittab) & reboot, you come up in a console. Yum and rpm still work. RPM sorely lacks the --middle-finger option. In it's place, they have things like
This has to be followed by
or otherwise, the sky may fall in like rpm is warning you. If you have a debian based thing, (apt-get, emerge, etc.) you're on your own, as I never went there.

Yeah, I'm sorry to say I'm throwing in the towel on this one.
The procedures for possibly getting acceleration to work are a bit over my head, and the results are far from certain.

Thank you so much for your help and I'm sorry to bail!

If you are not averse to installing the proprietary ATI driver for your Radeon x1200, you can find it here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...eon_linux.aspx

The reason I suggest the driver from ATI is that I've been struggling for months with graphics problems (Debian 6.0 on a Toshiba Satellite). I tried everything suggested in this thread.

Yesterday I solved my graphics issues. I installed the driver from ATI.

I definitely am not averse to the proprietary driver. I had avoided it simply because I thought that since it was deprecated, it wouldn't work with current Linux flavors. Might as well try it though, I don't really have anything to lose at this point.

Thanks!

Your first instinct is correct. The last version of the proprietary to support your GPU is from March of 2009. It will not work with any modern distribution.

You might consider join #radeon on the Freenode IRC network and seeing if any of the developers are around to ask about your problem.

Adam

You are absolutely correct.. You cannot use this driver with any modern distros.. If you want to use this, you will have to use this with Debian's old stable "Lenny" distribution which just got it's security updates end-of-life'd last week... I'm running very similar hardware in my laptop and still running Debian "Lenny" because if I upgrade to the newer distros I'd have to throw away the Catalyst drivers and use r300g which means I lose MSAA and a stable Hyper-Z (lose feature and performance with open source driver).

/sigh.

I'd suggest you find a way to get this running on the newer distros and not try to run those deprecated Catalyst drivers. I'm running them now and they are blacklisted by the Mozilla team due to bugs that prevent WebGL and other browser accelerations from working properly, whereas the open source drivers will work.

I agree that this is most likely a monitor problem, not a graphics chip problem.. You need to find a way to force the correct HSYNC/VSYNC modes for your monitor.

Have you tried using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? I'd be very surprised if that didn't work out of the box. The Ubuntu team did exhaustive testing with netbooks from every manuf. for their netbook remix of Ubuntu, which eventually got rolled into their regular release of Ubuntu.

Do you mean 12.04 the as-yet-not-stable build of Ubuntu?
I tried Ubuntu 11.10 and the graphics issue happened pretty much immediately. Mint was the same, except it was so immediate and so bad that I couldn't even find the button for shutdown. Might as well try the 12.04 desktop CD though...

Just to mention I'm running your exact kit on slackware-13.37 with X on the Open Source xf86-video-ati and radeon module. I have full kms(radeon.ko kernel module) and am running 2 monitors atm on different resolutions.

If you're installing anything, do not install a proprietary driver but do install xf86-video-ati

12.04 LTS is at alpha 2 now. I'd expect (new!) problems, and I doubt that it would fix the problem shock_ez is having. I'd expect a buggy unity, or dropping back to unity 2D with 12.04 as well as any other 'new' problems 12.04 would bring.

LOL @ the 'netbook remix testing should have sorted it out' idea...if that was true, 11.10 would be running well.

I'd suggest trying a different distro. Slackware (if you dont mind learning a fair amount of new stuff) or debian testing/sid (even aptosid or siduction) if you dont want to learn so much.

Eh, no go. Oh well.

If you'd stay still on one distro, we could sort this out. The distros all install essentially the same things.

@ business_kid- yeah, they do...but I've had weirdness with some distros and hardware combos. Still, I probably should have posted 'If you are going to try 12.04, you might as well try slackware or debian testing/sid'...

When I got my box with an amd rs690/sb600 I started with ubuntu, and never got going.
Fedora, slamd64(slackware in disguise) & slackware64 all could get configured. I couldn't find out what to do in ubuntu. I did have to rebuild the jernel. I pity anyone trying a 32 bit distro on these.