I got into a soup by removing the restricted ATI driver in my upgraded version of Feisty (from 6.10 through Herd 5). Not during live CD install of final Feisty. I just wanted to install the newest ATI driver and thought that was the way to go, remove first and then add latest. I was expecting Feisty to automatically replace the restricted driver with Vesa, but instead I experienced... "Server aborting" and X not loading.
Reconfiguring xserver-xorg did not work unless all resolutions but 640x480 were removed. As S. Rey has mentioned above. I then get back into GDM and can reinstall the prop ATI driver. So steps to get it to work: At command line after failure: 1) sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg 2) choose Vesa 3) remove all resolutions except 640x480 4) set "HorizSync 36-52" and "VertRefresh 36-60" 5) startx In GDM 6) sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx (or latest from ATI) 7) sudo aticonfig -initial 8) see to it that /etc/X11/xorg.conf really gets changed after aticonfig 9) should be up and running (my native resolution 1680x1050, ATI x1600 on HP nx9420) My question is why allow a user the option of removing a functioning driver if it is not going to be replaced by another? It's one thing for "us" handy guys to experience problems. But a newbie, like the ones we want to start using Ubuntu instead of Windows don't want to experience anything of the sort. They're really not interested whether their computer is fitted with an Nvidia or ATI card! My opinion is that the Restricted driver manager should not have the option of un-enabling a working ATI driver. If it works let it work! Those who want to can do this via the terminal instead. Just my humble opinion. -- [regression] 7.2 broke vesa: "No matching modes found" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
