Help me troubleshoot my graphic issue

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I'm running an ATI X850XT, I would imagine I first need to establish what graphic driver its currently using and then go from there.

Whats the best way to do this?
 
Okay, just installed ATI binary X.Org driver from Add/Remove Application and it re-introduced the issue i had in this thread:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=168906

Where it just came up with some funny colours. I went into the terminal via the recovery menu and typed in apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx which rectified the problem.

Now how do I get the ATI driver here properly?
 
Open a terminal:
1) Alt + F2
2) Type
Code: 
gnome-terminal

In the terminal, post the output of
Code: 
lspci | grep VGA
 
Can I ask the question of how recent is your card? I only know the latest ATI cards but your model number seems old.

I've always been an nVidia person myself (recently started learning intel issues) so my experience in your field is limited.

When my system is fully built I will have ATi issues so hopefully in the next week or so I will be very helpful.
 
Fudzy, you should maybe try Envy to install your screen card drivers. Whenever I've had a problem, Envy could usually sort it out. It is available in the repositories.
 
sn3rd said:
Open a terminal:
1) Alt + F2
2) Type
Code: 
gnome-terminal

In the terminal, post the output of
Code: 
lspci | grep VGA
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Code: 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R480 [Radeon X850XT (PCIE)] (Primary)
 
BigAl-sa said:
Fudzy, you should maybe try Envy to install your screen card drivers. Whenever I've had a problem, Envy could usually sort it out. It is available in the repositories.
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I've installed it, the window that comes up tells me that I've got no compatible graphic cards :(
 
Well that's good news. The card is being detected correctly. Are you using the open source or proprietary driver? Check System, Administration, Hardware drivers. Is the proprietary driver enabled?

This whole process can be made easier using envy, as mentioned earlier.
 
sn3rd said:
Well that's good news. The card is being detected correctly. Are you using the open source or proprietary driver? Check System, Administration, Hardware drivers. Is the proprietary driver enabled?

This whole process can be made easier using envy, as mentioned earlier.
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When I go into the Hardware drivers page there is absolutely nothing there. It loads, runs a little load bar but nothing shows on on the list.
 
Fudzy said:
I've installed it, the window that comes up tells me that I've got no compatible graphic cards :(
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That's really weird. It managed to install drivers for my TNT1 card on my P2.
 
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=270978

All issues are resolved when I use VGA instead of DVI. With DVI, even on 'sudo reboot -h now' the whole computer freezes and will not reboot. With VGA, I can reboot, logout, switch users; everything. I would still like to fix this issue as I would like to use DVI. Any ideas on what would cause this?
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Interesting this. I had to use VGA out on the card instead of DVI to get my nvidia 5700 working properly too.
 
Can you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

EDIT: interestingly my ATI issues, I suspect, are also caused by having to use DVI.
 
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Fudzy I've only just recently started using both ATI, and DVI to VGA (Monitor). Also my computer is in for repairs so I haven't had a good chance to investigate. But I have a strong suspicion that it is at play.

In your xorg.conf I would also try changing between (under the Device section of your videcard) the below:
Driver "ati"
Driver "vesa"
 
Alright this is how it works for ATI Linux drivers:

R100-R400 you use the radeon driver
R500-R700 you use the radeonhd driver
Both these are the opensource drivers

If you have a R600-R700 chip, you could use the binary driver. Thing is, since 9.4 I think the binary driver removed support for R500 and older chips, because they do support 3D ect in the opensource drivers now.

Personally I switched over to radeonhd because I wanted to use the latest xorg which the binary 9.3 and previous versions do not support. For now it works fairly well, does 3d and 2d mostly perfect.
 
Tinuva said:
Alright this is how it works for ATI Linux drivers:

R100-R400 you use the radeon driver
R500-R700 you use the radeonhd driver
Both these are the opensource drivers

If you have a R600-R700 chip, you could use the binary driver. Thing is, since 9.4 I think the binary driver removed support for R500 and older chips, because they do support 3D ect in the opensource drivers now.

Personally I switched over to radeonhd because I wanted to use the latest xorg which the binary 9.3 and previous versions do not support. For now it works fairly well, does 3d and 2d mostly perfect.
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R480 [Radeon X850XT (PCIE)] (Primary) <-- as you can see my card is a R480, so I'm assuming it uses the Radeon drivers which I previously mentioned didn't work :(
 
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