9.10 karmic Radeon HD3650

[lubberlick]

I have searched several forums and tried dozens of methods to get this to work. Basically I have a Toshiba Laptop with a built in Radeon Mobility HD3650 Video card and would love to get 3D working.

I have tried installing the proprietary drivers from ati.com by both running the installer and building the .deb packages. I have tried installing the proprietary drivers from the repositories. No matter what I do when the system loads its just a black screen. I have successfully gotten it to run 3 or 4 times during my testing but once I reboot or shut down it will immediately stop working again. I am at a complete loss and willing to try anyone's suggestions.

[Roger Bergling]

Hi !
Samo problem here, with HP EliteBook 8530p ...

F-cking ATI..

You can solve your issue with diable of ACPI i the grub.cfg file.
ACPI=OFF

The the 3D effekt will work. but not very fast. Today I tried a HP 6930p with Intel HD400 . And that pc work with no problem at al. So When you choose ti buy a computer DON'T by ATI graphics !

// Roger B.

[PeonDevelopments]

Plug in your laptop to an external monitor and power it on.

Report whether your external monitor displays your desktop, or whether it too black screens.
I, for one, have found that an external works, but my laptop doesn't.
=/

[lubberlick]

Sorry it took me awhile to get back to this thread, I inevitably solved the issue and decided I was due for some much needed sleep. Ultimately my solution was like this.

First I purged all fglrx drivers by this method found in the ubuntu wiki

  sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh  # (if it exists)
  sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
  sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon 
  sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
  sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

I deleted /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then rebooted my computer to make sure everything was cleaned up. I then installed the proprietary drivers from the repositories. After I installed these drivers but BEFORE I rebooted my system I typed the following into the terminal.

   sudo aticonfig --initial -f
   sudo aticonfig --acpi-services=off

Once my system came back up everything has been working great since. I also do not experience this "slow" performance in 3D people are talking about.

TLR Use the drivers from the repositories not the drivers from ATI.com... and make sure you aticonfig properly.

[aleflocco]

hi,

I've been finding a solution to this for a while, now I feel near the goal, but I miss a thing...

Sorry, but I'm really new to Ubuntu, so maybe my question will look quite stupid

What do you mean exactly with " I then installed the proprietary drivers from the repositories."?
If you mean the "hardware driver" in system > administration, It gives me "no drivers available"...
If you mean the standard repositories, which one should I choose?
Last, maybe you mean official ATI drivers from their website... (catalyst 9.10 should be the last release).

Also... I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file... is it normal?

Thanks a lot
Ale

[lubberlick]

if you open up Synaptic Package Manager and do a search for FGLRX you will see Xorg-Driver-FGLRX. This is what i installed. If you do not have a xorg.conf that is fine, the aticonfig commands will create it for you

[Kilokahn]

where's the Repository for ati 9.3 drivers? im a noob so im tryin to make sence of this stuff.

[Roger Carlssom]

What about Lucid version of this new xserver ?!