I'm new to Ubuntu and at the moment I'm dealing with major problems due to an ATI X700 series Graphics card.
At first I encountered problems with the default installation CD. (AMD 64); screen went black after starting CD. Finally I managed the install with the "alternate install cd". (AMD 64) However default booting the Linux system resulted in black screen. So, booted in recovery mode (which is runlevel 1) After manually adding Driver "vesa" in the section "Device" of the xorg.conf file I managed to run the graphics mode after entering: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start Still in this stage the default bootup resulted in a black screen. With the restricted drivers manager I installed the graphics driver for the ATI. The installation itself went fine: "Succesfully applied all changes...." Default bootup was still not succesfull. >From recovery mode booting and starting graphics mode, the restricted drivers manager showed for this driver a status "not in use". Opened a terminal in graphics mode and proceeded method 1 according to a wiki: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gutsy_Installation_Guide#Method_1:_Install_the_Driver_the_Ubuntu_Way Manually checked / added the final changes in the xorg.conf file to assure correct settings. Default booting resulted in switching my screen to sleepmode. Recovery booting followed by graphics mode resulted in a dark grey screen. the fglrxinfo showed an Error: unable to open display :0 (f.y.i: proceeded this from the commandprompt in textmode) As I switch Runlevel with "telinit <Run Level Number>" using runlevel 3 I noticed some text scrolling over my screen (to quick to read), and finally ending up with a dark grey graphics screen again. Now Runlevel 3 in Ubuntu seems the same as runlevel 5 (graphics mode multiuser), so this problem made sense to me. Unless anybody has some other suggestion worth trying, I'm planning to buy me an MSI NVidia 7300GT or an MSI NVidia 7300LE hoping one of these will properly work.... However, in present state suggestions are more than welcome! Thanks in advance. Eric -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ATI-X700-status-%22not-in-use%22.-tp15037371p15037371.html Sent from the ubuntu-uk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
