I followed method 2 of http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Edgy_Installation_Guide and have a problem that seems to be related. fglrx does not get loaded:
sudo modprobe fglrx FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/fglrx.ko': No such file or directory It seems that the .ko file of the custom driver is installed to the misc directory and not to volatile: /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/misc/fglrx.ko When I do a sudo ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/misc/fglrx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/ and then a modprobe, everything seems to work after an X restart, including 3d. However, this link gets removed on the next system restart because of the DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx" line in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common. When I remove fglrx from this line, the old 8.28.8 driver's .ko file will be in the volatile dir after the next system restart just like the guide says. dmesg confirms it: fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 929 MBytes. [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.28.8 [Aug 17 2006] on minor 0 Any ideas? Where is it specified that modprobe/the driver (?, I don't know much about linux internals) looks in the volatile folder and not in misc? -- Edgy Eft - fglrx module not started https://launchpad.net/bugs/57716 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
