For people who do not manage to make the free driver work, here was my path after upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 on a ASUS M6N equipped with a Mobility radeon 9600 : I did no pre-upgrade config (except getting all my packages up to date), then the new 8.10 distro started in VGA mode, open a term and switch from the proprietary 'fglrx' driver to the free 'radeon' driver :
1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* 2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon 3. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati 4. sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf --> change Driver "fglrx" to Driver "radeon" in the "Device" section 5. Restart I think that step 4., which was not documented in the first post to this discussion, is only necessary when you changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand (which was my case), else maybe it's automaticwhen you install xserver-xorg-video-ati ... -- r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
