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I may have spoken too soon. The above worked for one boot, then I wasn't able to boot it again even with identical settings. The inconsistency is killing me.

In the mean time I noticed...

Thank you so much for this idea! I was able to resolve these issues by installing the newest v3.9-raring kernel and then making a couple of changes to to /etc/default/grub.

Installing the mainline...

I thought I would post an update. I wound up installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I was able to boot my HP Envy 15-1050nr laptop without any special kernel options, so I did not have any problems with having...

I am not trying to use the closed source drivers. I am trying to get the open source radeon driver to work. See here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
and...

Interestingly enough the radeon module is still loaded, it is just using VESA instead.

@condor:~$ lsmod | grep -i radeon
radeon 937749 0
i2c_algo_bit 13413 1 radeon...

I do not have a customized xorg.conf file. I can generate an xorg.conf.new file in my home directory that looks like this (using `sudo Xorg :1 -configure`):

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier ...

Hi all,

I have been struggling to get hardware acceleration to work with the ATI card in my laptop:

~$ lspci | grep -i VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee...