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Thread: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

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    ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    I hate the breakage in the open source drivers. You know what I mean: the artifacts, flashing, white lines everywhere, etc. The latest open source git drivers seem to have a lot of this fixed. While I'm sure you can wait until the next release when we get newer drivers, here is how to do this in Jaunty and get your system fixed now. Worst case scenario of doing this is that on your particular card all the cleanup hasn't been done yet, but on my x1200 this worked wonderfully.

    Open up a terminal and do the following:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git-core
    
    sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev x11proto-gl-dev mesa-common-dev xutils-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev x11proto-render-dev xserver-xorg-dev
    
    git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
    
    cd xf86-video-ati
    
    sudo ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-dri
    
    sudo make
    
    sudo make install
    Now restart your machine and you're using the new drivers. Try bumping up your visual effects to max and see what happens. If you're lucky like me, everything will work flawlessly. If not, then you may want to wait a couple weeks and try it again, but you're no worse off then you were before.

    Enjoy!

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    Thanks! My X1200 flickers a lot less now.

    Is there a way to get 3D working? I miss the games that used to work in Wine under Hardy.

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    Quote Originally Posted by Hypersonic View Post
    Thanks! My X1200 flickers a lot less now.
    How much flickering is left? And when does it happen?

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    Well, this didnt work for me. When I boot, I see the ubuntu logo, then the screen flashes a few times, but then eventually goes dark.

    I am using an ATI Radeon x1200.

    Any suggestions?

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    You can try the following
    maybe they'll work ?

    #Xorg Drivers
    Code:
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    Working flawlessly on my x1300 t60
    I've attached a script(not mine) to download the keys automatically

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    So, should I run those commands Makrin, and then re-run all of the commands that airspirit posted at the first?

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    I assumed you had tried the commands on the 1st post already.
    The ones on the ppas are newer (i think)
    In terminal type;

    Code:
    gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
    add the following lines at the bottom;
    Code:
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    then extract launchpad-update.tar.gz file.
    launch script by typing;

    Code:
    sudo ./launchpad-update
    after script is done downloading keys
    type;

    Code:
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
    Attached Files Attached Files
    Last edited by Makrin; May 28th, 2009 at 08:10 PM. Reason: typing errors in code.

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    Quote Originally Posted by Makrin View Post
    I assumed you had tried the commands on the 1st post already.
    The ones on the ppas are newer (i think)
    In terminal type;

    Code:
    gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
    add the following lines at the bottom;
    Code:
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main main
    then extract launchpad-update.tar.gz file.
    launch script by typing;

    Code:
    sudo ./launpad-update
    after script is done downloading keys
    type;

    Code:
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
    I get: "E: Malformed line 57 in source list /etc/apt/souces.list (dist parse)"

    talking about:
    Code:
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    Quote Originally Posted by four o two View Post
    I get: "E: Malformed line 57 in source list /etc/apt/souces.list (dist parse)"

    talking about:
    Code:
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty

    What you will need to do is add main at the end of that line. so that it looks like:

    Code:
    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
    that let me do the apt-get update as well as the apt-get upgrade

    I am booting it up now to see what happens.

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    Re: ATI unsupported cards in Jaunty: full effects

    Wow. This worked great for me. not 100% but its a good 90%!!! and thats alot better than what I had (which was 0% heh) Compiz is actually running pretty nicely.

    Heres a step by step of what I did:

    1- I followed the steps mentioned in this first thread (Thanks Airspirit!) . I will post them again below:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git-core
    
    sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev x11proto-gl-dev mesa-common-dev xutils-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev x11proto-render-dev xserver-xorg-dev
    
    git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
    
    cd xf86-video-ati
    
    sudo ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-dri
    
    sudo make
    
    sudo make install
    Then I rebooted my computer. I had to use the recovery mode and then drop to root with networking in order to perform the next steps as my video wasnt displaying anything at all.

    After I rebooted I followed these instructions (Thanks Markin!!!) I will post them below:

    Code:
         gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
    Add the following lines at the bottom;

    I did it a little differently here as I had to drop to root to get going. So I uploaded the file Markin posted in this thread and unzipped it on my server so I could wget it on my laptop.

    You can use this if you need to wget the file:

    Code:
     wget http://gigahype.net/files/launchpad-update
    Then after the file downloads do the following:

    Code:
    sudo sh ./launchpad-update
    After script is done downloading keys
    type;

    Code:
         sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
    Then reboot the computer one more time and you should have video!!

    Thanks again to Airspirit and Markin for these suggesstions. This got me going again, and running alot better than I was!

    Oh, and if your in root like I was, you can omit the sudo from the commands.

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