ATI Radeon 9200 not functioning ubuntu

Mickey1 · 01-30-2006, 02:20 PM

I know this has been posted many of times but many of times without a solution

My card is plugged in
When i enable the card in bios (switching graphics from onboard to pci)
The bootscreen for ubuntu freezes on starting the hotplug subsystem
When i change it to onboard in the bios
ubunty runs fine

Since my 9200 is a bit better then the onboard i would like to find a working solution for this

I've seen other posts similar to this that recommend Xorg 6.8
That file seems to be .rpm

the rest are all run files
So from different aspects my graphics card is a challenge on it's own
Is this just a bios issue?

Some help would be appreciated

P.S
I know i post alot of posts with questions but i am extremely new to linux and so far am loving it even though windows simplicity seems to be lurking around the corner
I'm just trying to find a learning curve for a new,better and more stable platform then microsoft will ever be able to release

cheers

IBall · 01-31-2006, 11:52 PM

Try "lspci" and make sure your card is recognised.

It might help to install the proprietry ATI drivers.
1) Install the following packages using apt-get: linux-686 and xorg-driver-fglrx.

2) Add fglrx to /etc/modules:

Code:

echo fglrx | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

3) Change "ati" in xorg.conf to "fglrx":

Code:

sudo sed -s 's/"ati"/"fglrx"/' -i /etc/X11/xorg.conf

The full instructions are Here

4) Logout, and restart the computer, since you have installed a new kernel.

I hope this helps
--ian

Ray_Kovecses · 02-01-2006, 08:53 PM

Did you plug the monitor into the pci card?

Mickey1 · 02-03-2006, 10:46 AM

0000:01:0a.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5940 (rev 01)

It's there but not recognized

Mickey1 · 02-03-2006, 04:15 PM

Code:

0000:01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO (rev 01)

Is a new line that is there
The old line is still present though
which is this one:

Code:

0000:01:0a.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5940 (rev 01)

I tried restarting my computer and changing the setting in Bios to pci
This did not matter any
It still froze when trying to start the hotplug subsystem
Also perhaps something needed
When i boot up all the thinsg loaded are checked with [ok]
When my bios is to read the onboard gfx card
It boots and starts but the starting hotplug subsystem does not receive an [ok]

Hope to get this sorted,

cheers

Mickey1 · 02-06-2006, 09:09 AM

Here is a full listing of my pci listings

Code:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA-100 IDE Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
0000:01:09.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5940 (rev 01)
0000:01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)

Now as you can see there are 2 ATI cards listed
When i installed the card in windows
It gives me 2 ATI cards in one
This would be because the one pops up as ATI Radeon 9250 Secondary
Could that be my tv-out?

And why is it that when i change to pci mu hotplug subsytem refuses to start?
It won't load passed this point untill i change it onboard graphic card in BIOS

I'm losing faith that this will ever be resolved

zeroability · 07-06-2006, 09:57 AM

It doesn't look like you have the modules built. You will need either the kernel headers or kernel source along with gcc and make. Basically all the Kernel Development packages. If I am not mistaken ubuntu has dependancy checks and if you run this rpm it will tell you what those are.

I would only trust this driver as I have tried the newer drivers and they either had serious issues with my hardware, or the libGL.so.1.2 file was not built correctly by ati.

Hope that was helpful