After looking at the release notes for the new 8.9 driver, I noticed: "for X.Org 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3" I found that 1.4.99 and 1.5 are part of X11 release 7.4, not 7.3. I would suppose that is why the driver fails to load on the 1.4.99 as shown in the last logs I posted above.

By the way, I saw no mention of resolved issues for X1900 series, X1950, or AGP releases.

I never could find 1.4.2 in the Ubuntu repositories, only 1.4.1 (under hardy) and 1.4.99 (now 1.5.0, under intrepid). Is there an easy way to get 1.4.2 on hardy, or am I just looking in the wrong places?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/xserver-xorg
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/hardy/xorg-server

If I can figure out how to put server version 1.4.2 on here, I will do so and test again. Could you tell me how?

Yes that is the case. Get the sources from the x site and compile it the usual way.

The main thing is the options in
#./configure --help

(many of the things like xgl, xglx must be enabled)

see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/000640.html
too

I will work on doing that.

I've compiled software from source before, just never something as major as X. Is there some way to build it into packages that the synaptic package manager can install and remove, or at least without confusing it? Or should I just make install X over the current installation to replace it and ignore the package manager entirely?

I saw 1.5.0 was out, but as far as I'm aware from researching my current errors with 1.4.99 (the 1.5 pre-release) and from the driver page, the ATI proprietary driver just isn't compatible with the newest release of X, so I'm probably limited to using up to 1.4.2.

Is it just me, or is www.X.org out of date? There's no mention of 1.4.2 or even the completed 1.5.0 in the news or release pages.

Trying to build server 1.4.2, but after many errors I've run into one I'm not sure how to resolve. Searching for the missing header file dri_interface.h on packages.ubuntu.com points to the mesa-swx11-source package, but the error persists after installing this. The file exists in the /usr/share/mesa-source/include/GL/internal folder.

Making all in dri
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/bass/Desktop/xorg-server-1.4.2/hw/xfree86/dri'
/bin/bash ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../include -I../../../hw/xfree86/common -I../../../hw/xfree86/os-support -I../../../hw/xfree86/os-support/bus -I../../../GL/glx -I../../../GL/include -I../../../GL/include -I/include -DHAVE_XORG_CONFIG_H -DHAVE_DIX_CONFIG_H -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing -D_BSD_SOURCE -DHAS_FCHOWN -DHAS_STICKY_DIR_BIT -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I../../../include -I../../../include -I../../../Xext -I../../../composite -I../../../damageext -I../../../xfixes -I../../../Xi -I../../../mi -I../../../miext/shadow -I../../../miext/damage -I../../../render -I../../../randr -I../../../fb -I/usr/include/X11/dri -I/usr/include/drm -g -O2 -MT libdri_la-dri.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libdri_la-dri.Tpo -c -o libdri_la-dri.lo `test -f 'dri.c' || echo './'`dri.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../include -I../../../hw/xfree86/common -I../../../hw/xfree86/os-support -I../../../hw/xfree86/os-support/bus -I../../../GL/glx -I../../../GL/include -I../../../GL/include -I/include -DHAVE_XORG_CONFIG_H -DHAVE_DIX_CONFIG_H -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing -D_BSD_SOURCE -DHAS_FCHOWN -DHAS_STICKY_DIR_BIT -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I../../../include -I../../../include -I../../../Xext -I../../../composite -I../../../damageext -I../../../xfixes -I../../../Xi -I../../../mi -I../../../miext/shadow -I../../../miext/damage -I../../../render -I../../../randr -I../../../fb -I/usr/include/X11/dri -I/usr/include/drm -g -O2 -MT libdri_la-dri.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libdri_la-dri.Tpo -c dri.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libdri_la-dri.o
In file included from ../../../GL/glx/glxserver.h:70,
from dri.c:70:
../../../GL/glx/glxdrawable.h:46:39: error: GL/internal/dri_interface.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../../../GL/glx/glxserver.h:70,
from dri.c:70:
../../../GL/glx/glxdrawable.h:60: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before '__DRIcontext'
dri.c: In function 'DRIAdjustFrame':
dri.c:2355: warning: 'miPointerPosition' is deprecated (declared at ../../../mi/mipointer.h:130)
make[4]: *** [libdri_la-dri.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bass/Desktop/xorg-server-1.4.2/hw/xfree86/dri'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bass/Desktop/xorg-server-1.4.2/hw/xfree86'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bass/Desktop/xorg-server-1.4.2/hw/xfree86'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bass/Desktop/xorg-server-1.4.2/hw'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
bass@bass-desktop2:~/Desktop/xorg-server-1.4.2$

All the releases are in
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/
1.4.2 is in ./individual/xserver

All announcements are in the mailing list

Thanks, I found it after some searching last night. I just can't get it to compile.

Still can't get X to compile, but there's a kernel update available now in the main repository. The kernel comes with a fglrx module, I saw it install when doing the update. I haven't been able to downgrade my X from the 1.5 prerelease (Xorg R7.4...supposedly not compatible with ATI drivers), but has anyone else had any new found success with that update? Also, 8.10 driver from ATI is released now. No release notes posted as of yet.

ATi driver version 8.10 sooolved the problem on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.1 system! 6 months needed to solve this, lol
Download it from here.
Put it to your home folder and copy the code to the terminal, than follow the instructions of the graphical installer.
After the installation paste these to terminal:
Restart your computer.

The newest driver in every month is here.
I also have Compiz-Fusion working, and about 4000 FPS in glxgears.
Now I have just one problem, the videos are blinking in the players. I have waiting for the solutions...
Thx!

Good luck All!

It certainly is a different radeon card.

In fedora-10 and similar distros that put in more recent X-things, it may work 'out of box'. I checked radeon HD 36xx, 12xx and 24xx on the latest snapshot. radeonhd has progressed a lot.

That's great news. Can you tell me what version of Xserver you are running with that? It won't work with my 1.4.99, or on the Hardy 8.04 live CD. Of course with the live CD, I can't reboot before trying it so that may be an issue with such testing (unless there's a way around needing to reboot).

If anyone has the time, I could use some help compiling Xserver 1.4.2 so I can downgrade (see above).

Ubuntu 8.10 released and it have built in ATi 8.10 driver in repos!
Install it with restricted drivers manager and hope it will work.

Good Luck!

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1950 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release

It appears to be a success! Something about 8.10 drivers has resolved the issue, and with an upgrade made to 8.10, the Ubuntu way of installing them worked flawlessly. I will post again with an update after some further testing.

Posting again to say I've confirmed compatibility with compiz and other applications that require acceleration. Everything seems to be working so much better and faster than before. 2D and 3D acceleration working well. I strongly recommend this upgrade to anyone else experiencing headaches with the X1950 series cards.

Thanks everyone who offered help on this. After all this time, it was a bug in the driver for sure.

I'm glad to hear your success!
I would like sugesst to use VLC Media Player instead of Totem, because Totem have problems with ATi driver or with something else and it always crached for me when I tried to play video with it.
After install open VLC and go to Settings/Video and change the Video Output to X11. This will fix the blinking videos.

I get a segmentation fault with Totem, and seems only happen when opening videos for which it doesn't have a codec. Whenever I try to open videos that are playable, it seems to run OK. VLC seems to handle the problem more gracefully by playing audio only.

(Edit: Totem crash is not an ATI proprietary driver issue, it crashes under the non-proprietary default driver as well. Possibly a broken package like ZSNES is? Totem appears to behave correctly under Hardy 8.04.)

The flickering issue isn't just with VLC, I have it with other programs like Totem and ZSNES. It has something to do with Compiz, because when Compiz is turned off, flickering goes away. Your suggestion for VLC fixed that problem, but ZSNES and other programs still flicker. Any ideas?