Comments on: Ubuntu Edgy, ATI’s fglrx, DRI, 3D acceleration and X.org Composite extension

By: 3d scanning

3d scanning — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:11:14 +0000

I love the 3d that you mention

By: Brebinator

Brebinator — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:53:34 +0000

Hi there,

Guys, just wanted to post that I am now on linux after 15 years of NT to Vista. Vista made me think about what was going on in the community land.

All I can say is thank you – it is now a tough learning curve, but worth the effort and the OS is so enjoyable.

I have ATI driver issues – and i will read and get ti sorted..

Anyway,

Hopefully I can contribute at as later date.

Brebo

By: Adam Garrett

Adam Garrett — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:20:46 +0000

You RULE!!!!

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0000

Hell yeah — thanx a million!

By: cmn

cmn — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:18:21 +0000

Dear god, I was tearing my hair out trying to figure this out.

You win an internet.

By: quick_dudley

quick_dudley — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:28:26 +0000

Thanks very much for solving this problem.

By: ghoti

ghoti — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:09:35 +0000

PLEASE for the love of the penguins help me

ok, so I am having an additional problem with x1900
1) in ubuntu graphics card works ok with opensource drivers, but I am not able to use a better resolution than 1280X1024 even though it shows greater screen resolution support, up to 1680X1050 in xorg.conf.

However when I scroll using mouse wheel or slide bar in, for instance this page, it skips as opposed to smooth rendering.
I mention this because when I do install flgrx drivers 2 things happen.

One, I cannot scroll in a web page at all. Well I can and I can see that it is working, but in order to see the “refreshed” display I have to minimze and maximize the webpage. I have added the composite off section to xorg and rebooted.

2.) I will also get overlays, AKA if I have two windows open
and minimize the top one that image will remain in the second window until I min/max.
Switching tabs in firefox will also refresh the display.
Also when a warning window pops “start or restore firefox” for instance it doesnt actually appear.
I can see it in the panel, but it will not draw on the screen until I move my mouse over it at which point it will draw the start/restore boxes independantly on mouse scroll over. and the title bar, but no text.

xorg also identifies itself as an x1600 after I have installed the drivers as well.
This is true for both ubuntu and opensuse, I have not been able to get any other distros to work with this graphics card. They all default out upon reboot after the install to a black screen.

This card has worked. I took my box down for a few days to make some mods (upgrade to 2 GB PC400 ram and 500GB sata HD from 160 ide and 1.5 PC200) and switch to open suse. I was running beryl project when I did this. Now all I can get is the whitescreen of death in the beryl project when I tried to install over this error in either ubuntu or opensuse.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF THE PENGUINS HELP ME

By: Claudio

Claudio — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:44:03 +0000

GREEEEEEEEEEEEEAT !!!

Thanks Felipe. You saved our lives!

By: Mr. Eko

Mr. Eko — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:34:40 +0000

Felipe, you save my life man. Thanks!

By: R. Benjamin Harris

R. Benjamin Harris — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:56:01 +0000

What worked for me to get OpenGL running on my ATI Radeon Xpress 200M was to turn off the “Composite” extension in xorg.conf. I’ve running the ATI proprietary drivers version 8.33.6-1 on Ubuntu Edgy 8.10. From what I read, the most recent versions of xorg turn on the Composite feature by default. I added these lines to my xorg.conf:

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Disable”
EndSection