Driver for ATI Radeon X1400 in Ubuntu 11.10?

[Flashlight242]

Help! Please!

I'm having problems installing a compatible driver for Ati Radeon X1400 graphics card on Ubuntu 11.10. Can someone give me some guidance?

Flashlight

[BC59]

Try installing the driver from the repository x-swat:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fglrx

[mastablasta]

Try installing the driver from the repository x-swat:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fglrx

are u sure about that? i don't think that card is supported by fglrx.

[BC59]

are u sure about that? i don't think that card is supported by fglrx.

Why not? As I see here is supported.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_Radeon_X1400
Do you no something in contrary?

[Flashlight242]

Not working...any other suggestions?

[Flashlight242]

I read that "the last driver that supported your hardware was 2 and half years ago, 9.3 which you cannot run with the current versions of xorg and kernel present in Ubuntu." Is there another option?

[Mark Phelps]

I read that "the last driver that supported your hardware was 2 and half years ago, 9.3 which you cannot run with the current versions of xorg and kernel present in Ubuntu."

You're correct.

Is there another option?

You don't NEED to install a video driver -- because you already have the default open-source driver installed. That is done when you first setup Ubuntu.

[Flashlight242]

You're correct.


You don't NEED to install a video driver -- because you already have the default open-source driver installed. That is done when you first setup Ubuntu.

Thanks. I read about that... I guess I'm specifically trying to find out how to I get the same level of control over my monitor settings like in ATI Cat Control Center? I want to adjust the brightness, contrast, and gamma etc...

[Mark Phelps]

Thanks. I read about that... I guess I'm specifically trying to find out how to I get the same level of control over my monitor settings like in ATI Cat Control Center? I want to adjust the brightness, contrast, and gamma etc...

Sorry ... you don't.

CCC features only come with the AMD driver -- and there's no driver that will work with your card and any Ubuntu version newer than 8.10. AMD dropped driver support for your card when 9.04 came out.

[mastablasta]

maybe you can find something about that here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

droping the support of driver is ATI fault but having no GUI for configuring radeon driver is on the people who made the opensource driver. they could have included at least some basics. i believe some settings are found under other tools, but they are not stickign together,

anyway it can be done but it's messy: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1850578