Help me troubleshoot my graphic issue

[Fudzy]

Have you tried using ati or vesa?

Yeah that made no difference.

 

[sn3rd]

Try

dpkg --get-selections | grep fglrx

That's the proprietary ATI driver. The command checks to see if you have it installed.

 

[Fudzy]

Can you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

EDIT: interestingly my ATI issues, I suspect, are also caused by having to use DVI.

# 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.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# 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 "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Its clear again

 

[Fudzy]

*bump*

Any suggestions?

 

[sn3rd]

sudo aticonfig --initial

?

 

[Fudzy]

Try

dpkg --get-selections | grep fglrx

That's the proprietary ATI driver. The command checks to see if you have it installed.

fglrx-kernel-source				install
fglrx-modaliases				install
xorg-driver-fglrx				deinstall

 

[Fudzy]

sudo aticonfig --initial

?

It says it can't find aticonfig which doesn't surprise given the previous results.

 

[graviti]

If using Ubuntu 9.04, the ATI binary driver does not work for your chipset. It will just give you funny coloured lines across your screen. You could download the ATI driver from AMD, and compile and install yourself. This still works. It's only the Ubuntu version of fglrx that doesn't support at this point, although I've heard that the AMD version will soon follow suite.

The opensource ati driver works well for me, running an X1550. Originally tried the fglrx, then changed to ati

My xorg.conf is as follows

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

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
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 "ati"
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
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection

 

[milomak]

i've got a new monitor with a dvi input and this time i had no problems when i installed the proprietary driver