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I have tried everything, and I can't get Feisty 7.04 Kubuntu to run with the fglrx drivers.

Can anyone confirm they've done this?

fglrx might not work with an nvidia graphics chip

I don't have an NVIDIA chipset, I have a T60p with a FireGL 5200.

Why isn't this working?

I have a FireGL 5200 and I have the fglrx drivers working, except I'm using SuSE 10.2, so maybe that is of no use to you. What have you done so far?

Must be your distro. I'm running the fglrx driver and I didn't have to do anything.

Feisty is just a beta. I am not sure if the FGLRX drivers are working for it?

You could try edgy or dapper.

I too am running openSUSE 10.2 with the ATI fglrx drivers. This on a Thinkpad T60p (FireGL 5200). Works well.

Techgurl wrote:You could try edgy or dapper.

Or, you know, SUSE, Slackware, Fedora, etc. It's pretty silly to "give up on linux" because one beta-level distribution doesn't accelerate 3d.

Feisty Fawn uses Xorg 7.2, which has not been supported by the ATI driver yet.
Try Edgy, it works perfect on my T60 (200766U), I followed this HOWTO:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... tion_Guide

I got edgy to work too with an ATI card with full fglrx support. Give it a try...

Ok I can try the previous Kubuntu version, but Edgy does not offer WPA WiFi encryption in it's wifi manager, which I need for my network.

I guess that's another thread.

Isn't Feisty supposed to be released any week now? Will it be lacking FireGL support from the initial release?

dxben wrote:Ok I can try the previous Kubuntu version, but Edgy does not offer WPA WiFi encryption in it's wifi manager, which I need for my network.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy ... rk-Manager

or

http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-w ... linux.html


Feisty will be released on April 19. There is still time for you to submit bug reports about this issue. Some have already been filed; because you provided no actual error messages, or other useful diagnostic information, I don't know if your situation has been reported.

There is a general "it don't work"-style bug filed:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/77420

feel free to add your experiences to it.

xorg 7.2 is supported

I think what isn't supported is kernel 2.6.20


Wait a bit, 2.6.20 support should come within a month

axiom wrote:xorg 7.2 is supported

I think what isn't supported is kernel 2.6.20


Wait a bit, 2.6.20 support should come within a month

I don't know if this will work on your distribution, but http://rpm.livna.org/ has fglrx default install with the 2.6.20 kernel. It works well. I am running it under FC6_x86_64.

It all works just fine, RTM.

3D acceleration (with Beryl) works out of box with linux Gentoo based distribution Sabayon on both T60 (X1400128MB ) and T42 (Radeon 9660 64MB). Sabayon is a live CD so you can try before installing.

dxben: I just got 3d accel working on my t60p with Feisty Faun. Actually, it worked out of the box for me, but then I played around with the open source driver and when I went back to the ATI proprietary one, 3d accel stopped working, so I had to figure out what was wrong. If you haven't already, go to System > Administration > Restricted Driver Manager and enable the ATI drivers, which will install the necessary files in two packages fglrx-kernel and xorg-driver-fglrx. If 3d accel still isn't working for you, check that:

- the fglrx kernel module is being loaded (run 'sudo lsmod | grep fglrx'. If it doesn't find the fglrx module, there's your problem. Run 'sudo modprobe -i fglrx' and restart X)

- Composite is disabled in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, as compositing doesn't work with 3d accel in the current ATI driver (in Section "Extensions", there should be a line Option "Composite" "0").

Hope that helps.