Ati drivers break 8.04 fresh install

[oranginator]

Title says it all, made fresh install, everything was working except 3D graphics. So I wanted to replace the mesa drivers with the Ati ones. After doing so, I reboot, choose the usual Ubuntu in GRUB and then the screen simply hangs. Backlight is on but nothing is displayed.

I tried doing it with EnvyNG and gave same results.

AMD athlon 64
ATI All-In-wonder Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro]

The effects are corrected by going into the Ubuntu recovery mode and running xfix. However, that just gets me back to square 1.

Thanks in advance :popcorn: for you.

[korinzu]

P4 2.53ghz
Radeon 9800 pro R350 128mb

I get the same problem! When i use compiz effects, the screen gets really laggy, however when the same effects are used in windows, theres no lag at all?! im a complete nub on this...can someone plz tell us how to get the 3d graphics enabled and working smoothly, and also OpenGL doesnt seem to be functioning properly either.

[oranginator]

Are there only two people on this forum with an ATI graphics card???

[jonvel]

At least you get to a point where the fresh install works :)

I've tried a fresh install (just the "try Ubuntu" option from boot up), and I don't get anything on screen. CTRL-ALT-F1 does get me to a text-login, but the X doesn't work at all, apparently.

This machine was sort of working with 7.10..

Sorry to hijack this thread - I'll start my own.

[korinzu]

>< yeah lol i guess so....

[TadeoDiaz]

I was having issues with hardy and ATI Radeon 9800 pro and once I gave up with Hardy and installed Ibex everything seems to work fine. I've got a little lag with some compiz stuff but i've just had to take it since I haven't had enough time to figure it out.

I would definitely be interested if you guys found a solution to speed up the graphics to use all the compiz goodies