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lxx
March 24th, 2013, 12:49 PM
Hi all,

i tried to install ubuntu 12.10 on my Sony Vaio Notebook about 4 times.
This time i made some fotos to show what problems occur.

http://i.imgur.com/hRYL5g0.jpg
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 from an USB stick
In the installation I also checked "Install this third-party software"

http://i.imgur.com/rnPaG7W.jpg
The installation is completed without any problems.
Because of problems with the WLAN in previous installs, i disabled WLAN, then restarted
the notebook.

http://i.imgur.com/KNAFl3S.jpg
After a restart these are my graphics settings

http://i.imgur.com/KL6MtNt.jpg
At that point Ubuntu is working fine.
So my next step is of course to load all available updates.

http://i.imgur.com/fVgVQbT.jpg
But after installing all updates and restarting the computer, i only get a graphical problem,
pink vertical stripes (no good photo)


So i start Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-26-generic (recovery mode) trying to install the
amd fglrx driver, like descibed here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

lspci -vvnn | grep vga
-> ... ATI Thames [Radeon 7500M/7600M Series]

At that point the is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf , so i dont need to make sure i have a backup of this file.

Then i run:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
sudo aticonfig --initial

http://i.imgur.com/tGoMWcE.jpg
This xorg.conf gets created
http://i.imgur.com/1EZfMQI.jpg
After restarting the computer, the boot process stops here.

When i start in recovery mode again, fglrxinfo returns
Error: unable to open display (null)

lxx
March 27th, 2013, 10:36 PM
I still think that the graphic driver is the problem.
Maybe someone can give me some tips which driver i have to install (and how).
Here is a dump of hwinfo.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5653515/

thanks

lxx
March 29th, 2013, 10:05 PM
Finally I was able to get the correct graphic driver running.

This instruction worked for me: http://askubuntu.com/questions/124292/what-is-the-correct-way-to-install-ati-catalyst-video-drivers-fglrx/129200#129200

But only the 13.3 beta driver worked.

My graphic chip is a radeon 7650M.