ATI Drivers. I have them installed but X won't load

[jus71n742]

My Xorg is actually trying to load these drivers. I am using the same driver as before with these 4850 HD's
I exited X and ran


sudo sh *.run

said installer ran. I got back to X no problem. Even altered some stuff, then when I rebooted everything went crazy. No screen, no display in TTY1-7
but I can get there in recovery mode. thats it. I Have tried removing and reistalling a different way with


--buildpkg Ubuntu/8.04

on the end of the driver. still nothing.
when I look at my xorg.conf file It is trying to load the correct ATI driver. So I am stuck as to what may be causing this. I have read a few different threads on how this works but nothing has worked so far.

I went back and repaired the following package:


fglrx-amdcccle

since this package was broken. then reinstalled the drivers since they still weren't detected. They are still the default loaded drivers in the xorg.conf file though.
I am using these drivers

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.36&lang=English

[markbuntu]

You need open a terminal and run

aticonfig --initial

What ubuntu are you using and which driver?

[jus71n742]

8.04
and the driver is at the link in my post



aticonfig --initial

produces the following output


Uninitialised file found, configuring.
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-4

[markbuntu]

It should work OK now after you restart x. I am using that driver on my Hardy amd64 Ubuntustudio and have no problems. This driver uses randr and you need to disable randr if you have more than one display.

[jus71n742]

How would I disable that? never heard of that setting.

Also, when I install it again and again I can get into catalyst control center HOWEVER, if I change ANYTHING. and log out to restart X. it fails immediately and I can't do a thing again. No display until I reboot into recovery mode. Is there a setting in the Xorg.conf file that will let me disable randr? Also it will not detect the second video card as a video card, just as an unknown device and will not allow the card running 2 monitors to split them into separate displays which is what I want.

also lspci returns the following:


02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 9442
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device aa30
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 9442
04:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device aa30

[jus71n742]

Ok when I start the package manager I recieve the following broken package

libamdxvba1

and so I remove it. attempt to reinstall and again...broken package.
I can not find this package in the package manager unless its broken. is there another way to acquire this package?
I also receive the error that


errors were encountered while processing:
libamdxvba1.deb

then above that it says no such file or directory.

this is all from running


sudo sh *.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/8.04
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
aticonf --initial -f


also if I just rm all that deb files and start fresh....then this is what happens:


Errors were encountered while processing:
fglrx-amdcccle_8.852-Oubuntu1_amd64.deb
fglrx-kernel-source_8.582-Oubuntu1_amd64.deb
libamdxvba1


So I am really confused at this since none of this happened last time I installed them. I would REALLY appreciate any ideas on this.

[jus71n742]

Got different drivers and it is sorta kinda working...meaning I am in the regular kernel (not recovery) and The main screen works and is the correct resolution
However when I try and change the other 2 screens ...everything gets distorted and scrambled up.
one of them even shows the desktop in the bottom corner and the rest of the screen looks like a TV does when it is snowy just not moving.

[markbuntu]

You should check out this thread about getting dual monitors working

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1171926