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faldrich
February 5th, 2010, 10:10 PM
This all began when I first installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an IBM x3200 server -- the system would boot into Ubuntu, I'd see the logo, then it would reboot itself. When I took out the card, all was fine.

Long story short, there seems to be a driver issue.

I was also having trouble running the ElectricSheep screen saver (a must have, for me).

When I installed the fglrx driver, pointing ElectricSheep to the "gl" driver, it works. But, Ubuntu won't enable the desktop effects, and I know this card is perfectly capable of all of that.

I saw a web page that talks about removing the fglrx driver and doing some other configuration -- it looks overly complicated, and it seems like Ubuntu should do the right thing--- ?

I wonder if someone could lend a hand to help diagnose and figure this one out?


Thank you in advance...

faldrich
February 5th, 2010, 11:46 PM
I forgot to mention that in order to get a full-screen display of the ElectricSheep screen saver, I must point it to the "xv" driver (via electricsheep-preferences). Otherwise, it ends up being a small square.