2.6.31-20 kernel issues

[ben1986]

I followed the link, but it has all the hallmarks of me being about to destroy my computer, owing to a lack of understanding. Are there specific drivers for the card in my pc, or is there one driver that works on multiple hardwares. I am not sure of the exact card I am using...

[patchwork]

lspci |grep VGA

will tell you your card. If you post the results, we can help you install the drivers.

[ben1986]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730XT [Radeon HD 4670]

[patchwork]

From here you must use the fglrx driver (the site was updated a few weeks ago, so should be fairly accurate)

sudo modprobe fglrx

and then restart X

sudo service gdm restart

[ben1986]

Erm, feel silly, but should I follow the link and do what it says there, or just type that code into the terminal?


I feel like I'm single-handedly redefining the word "noob"

[andrewthomas]

I followed the link, but it has all the hallmarks of me being about to destroy my computer, owing to a lack of understanding. Are there specific drivers for the card in my pc, or is there one driver that works on multiple hardwares. I am not sure of the exact card I am using...

Sorry I gave you a link to the wrong page.
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

This PPA is currently meant to be used as a whole. Please do _not_ individually install packages from it, add it to your sources and let your package manager pull in every update. The packages here build against each other and compile different features based on whats available at build time. Do not assume that because it lets you install a DDX with just the driver and libdrm update that it will work. These packages are made with scripts that use the the current packages as the base, so some dependencies can be wrong and your package manager will not resolve that for you. If you want to individually install something from here, grab the source and rebuild it in your current environment instead

If you cannot get the fglrx to work I would try the ppa.

[patchwork]

if you cannot get the fglrx to work i would try the ppa.

+1

[ben1986]

Ok, while I try to understand how to do the things with fglrx, here's a little bit of new info from the startup error. This is what it tells me just before it offers me low-graphics mode.


there is a few flashes of an error after the ubuntu logo pops up, mentioning something about

unable to find a suitable fs in proc/mount

then I get the following message:

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.do failed (/usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory)

(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering


Does this seem like the kind of problem we're tackling with this fglrx malarky?

[patchwork]

The suitable fs error is different (and is probably why you were getting your errors for sdb in post #7)

The AIGLX message is separate to the video card driver (but related in the sense of graphics.) Back to that in a bit...

What is the output of

lsmod

Also, you can try to load the dri module

sudo modprobe dri

About AIGLX

[ben1986]

Ok, sorry I had to step out for a bit.


The ouput of lsmod is:

Module Size Used by
arc4 1113 2
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 2263 1
binfmt_misc 6311 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 208756 1
snd_hda_intel 23544 4
snd_hda_codec 76179 3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hd a_intel
snd_hwdep 5257 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 37044 0
snd_mixer_oss 15029 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 71911 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 1488 0
ath5k 125399 0
snd_seq_oss 26490 0
mac80211 171303 1 ath5k
snd_seq_midi 4594 0
ath 8449 1 ath5k
snd_rawmidi 18299 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 5675 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 45606 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 19292 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5596 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 53411 19 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec, snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_se q_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 6569 1 snd
iptable_filter 2199 0
snd_page_alloc 7172 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ip_tables 10338 1 iptable_filter
ppdev 5355 0
cfg80211 128191 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
parport_pc 27206 1
lp 7277 0
x_tables 13823 1 ip_tables
parport 31856 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
joydev 8915 0
usblp 10525 0
asus_atk0110 11043 0
led_class 2798 1 ath5k
i2c_piix4 8327 0
fbcon 36115 73
tileblit 1927 1 fbcon
font 7517 1 fbcon
bitblit 4509 1 fbcon
softcursor 1085 1 bitblit
usbhid 35375 0
radeon 676434 1
ttm 48908 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 28398 1 radeon
usb_storage 38465 0
r8169 35910 0
mii 4085 1 r8169
drm 159873 3 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 4858 1 radeon
ati_agp 5020 0
agpgart 31758 3 ttm,drm,ati_agp


and the sudo modprobe dri tells me

FATAL: Module dri not found.



Hope this helps, should I continue with the fglrx stuff? Also, what is a PPA?