xorg-driver-fglrx is not enabled

[ash4ever]

I installed ubuntu 7.10 today and got the following error when trying to enable the ATI accelerated graphics driver: xorg-driver-fglrx is not enabled

Please assist, as i'm a newbie, with step by step points to resolve, please, please!!!!

[Stemp]

Are you connected to Internet ?
What is your card ?

[RedfishBluefish]

If you were using the restricted drivers manager to do this (and probably even if you weren't) you should be able to fix this by opening System/Administration/Software Sources and ticking "Proprietary drivers for devices".
I had this exact same problem.

[mats-a]

I did this then I got a new message saying "Could not apply changes, Please fix broken packages first"

Any idea what to do?

[Forlong]

Try this:
sudo apt-get -f install

[mats-a]

didnt do anything

[ash4ever]

I'm using a ati X700 on my laptop which use to work fine on 7.04 (feisty)

[ash4ever]

yes i have internet access

[RedfishBluefish]

I think if you go into Software Sources again, and tick the source "Community-Maintained Open Source software", that should fix it,
And if that don't work tick "Software restricted by copyright or legal issues".


"Broken packages" typically means that the package you're trying to install depends on another package which can't be installed for various reasons, one of those reasons being that that package is in a disabled repository ("Software Source").
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[ash4ever]

Thanks for getting back and sorry for the late reply.

Tried both of that and got the following error message: "The software source for the package xorg-driver-fglrx is not enabled."

Please advise?:(

[ash4ever]

A big thank you to everyone trying to help me, fixed the problem.

I re-installed 7.10 and made sure that my internet connection was active before the installation.

Once installed i didn't get any errors. I then followed the following instructions:

Re: The Composite extension is not available?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Quote:
Originally Posted by meindian523

To install Xgl:
Code:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

And this fixed my problem :)

A big thanks to everyone who tried to help.

Thanks
Ash

[Stemp]

This link will help you :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI


[Edit] : too late :D

[RedfishBluefish]

Tried both of that and got the following error message: "The software source for the package xorg-driver-fglrx is not enabled."
Again? You still had the restricted drivers enabled, right? If so that might be a bit of a bug..

Anyway it's good to know you fixed the problem!:)

[ash4ever]

Thanks for all the help guys, much appreaciated.

Ubuntu rocks and windows sucks as usual...lol

[Jeeverz]

I had the same problem, and i got this error in terminal

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xgl: Depends: libglitz-glx1 but it is not installable
Depends: libglitz1 (>= 0.4.3+cvs20050728) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages



and everytime i try to enable the graphics thing, it says that there are 'broken packages'

[GordonFrohm]

*****@*****-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package xserver-xgl
*****@*****-desktop:~$

[Forlong]

Go to System → Administration → Software Sources and make sure (at least) main and universe are checked.

[Redenbacher]

I had this same problem and ticking all of the software sources fixed it. Thanks!

[nschive]

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[Peryl]

had the same error a while ago XP