ATI restricted drivers + reboot = black screen (8.04)

[pro003]

I have this flickering when playing video but in a full screen mode everything is fine. I guess that's some conflict with compiz fusion...
but hey, can't have it all!

[rmjohnson144]

I think it's just immature drivers still. After a lot of 3D testing and finding out all have issues I decided to swap out my 3870 for my 88ooGT and all is fine now.

Hopefully drivers are sorted out soon.
-=Mark=-

[mziskandar]

Mine is cooler.. a white blank screen and a little mouse arrow. Desktop seems exist behind that white blanket. I will post the solution if I get one..

[thebigredone]

i also have this, it is very annoying. First i install the drivers, reboot and get the black screen, then i hardcrash the comp, reboot in recover mode, fix the Xserver and startup. Try to enable visual effects and i get the white screen.

[rmjohnson144]

The trick I did was reboot and go into grub and tell it to boot in recovery mode and it fixed itself there. then just reboot normal and all was fine.

Good luck
-=Mark=-

[thebigredone]

ive tried that, but i cant enable visual effects, and next time i reboot after that i go into low grafics mode

[rmjohnson144]

ive tried that, but i cant enable visual effects, and next time i reboot after that i go into low grafics mode

actually, I uninstalled the drivers and used ENVY to install the drivers before that worked. Not sure what method you used for installation. although, I don't think I enabled the Visual Effects until after reinstalling mt 880GT as the ATI drivers were giving me problems in most games. But movies play the same on both the 3870 and 8800Gt the same. They play fairly well, but they still don't play 100% smooth.

-=Mark=-

[Isilion]

Hi. A week ago i posted a similar thread called "Imposible to get working ati 9800 pro" or something else. no replys. It shows some conf too.
Personally I think there's no short time solution for this issue. after googling and googling, all points to that the ATI driver just simply SUX.
Reading this thread ive noticed that my model isnt the only affected by this.
So, whats next point? Contacting ATI and demanding them a decent working driver, I suggest.
Perhaps we're thousands of ATI-linux users that are no more than the forgotten ones.
Im starting to think in selling the videocard too to a windows user, and buying a Nvidia.
or
Ill try to contact ATI ...

[Neo_The_User]

OK here is how you do it

PLEASE NOTE!!! DO NOT USE ENVY!

wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8-10-x86.x86_64.run
sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dh-make debconf dkms cdbs debhelper libstdc++5 linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sh ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/hardy
sudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

Add fglrx to DISABLED_MODULES in between the quotes

WHAT YOU MIGHT BE DOING WRONG

Just adding in 3 files instead of all of them except the .changes

FOLLOW THIS EXACTLY

sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.542-0ubuntu1_i386.deb fglrx-kernel-source_8.542-0ubuntu1_i386.deb fglrx-amdcccle_8.542-0ubuntu1_i386.deb xorg-driver-fglrx-dev_8.542-0ubuntu1_i386.deb fglrx-modaliases_8.542-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo aticonfig --initial -f

Restart computer.

The drivers are just fine. I got 2 monitors, full hardware acceleration, latest and greatest fglrx drivers, works like a charm.

My fglrxinfo

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 PRO
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release

glxgears

15491 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3098.040 FPS
16869 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3373.683 FPS
17093 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3418.595 FPS
17215 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3442.834 FPS
16942 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3388.279 FPS
15547 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3109.255 FPS

I have gotten 18000+ frames in 5.0 seconds numerous times. Unusually slow this time.

Here is my xorg.conf

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

[Isilion]

Hi. I did everything Neo_The_User said. now system boots, thanx. but it continues to not being installed properly. when i use:

isilion@isilion:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2)

i got that response.

and

isilion@isilion:~$ glxgears
1418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 282.813 FPS
1339 frames in 5.0 seconds = 266.268 FPS
1880 frames in 5.0 seconds = 375.250 FPS
1560 frames in 5.0 seconds = 311.743 FPS
1480 frames in 5.0 seconds = 294.422 FPS
1400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 279.074 FPS
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
after 19591 requests (18786 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
isilion@isilion:~$

i think its too slowly. problem should be easy for sure but im not too deep in linux to know how. so please, answer . Xorg.conf looks exactly to Neo's one