Issue 1 with Precise

[Leslie Anne Chatterton]

Let's hope the brains trust (anywhere it can be found) will find a
brilliant solution for you. A 2  year old computer should not give you
that kind of hassle. Mine, I knew it was coming, but I still hope for
an fglrx fix.

On 16 May 2012 23:48, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/05/12 20:24, Leslie Anne Chatterton wrote:
>>
>> Hi O. Sinclair,
>>
>> I have a somewhat similar laptop: Gateway AMD Turion 64 and ATI Radeon
>> Xpress 200M 5955 PCIe graphics. No dual vidoe. I initially found it
>> would not install 12.04 at all due to what I can only describe as an
>> error in the install routines. Installation stopped and froze when it
>> could not find a driver for the built in Broadcom wireless card, even
>> when the wired internet was connected. The solution was to use the
>> alternate installer and make some changes to the grub scripts when
>> first time booting, made permanent after the first successful boot.
>>
>> To return to your question: my laptop is using the generic VGA drivers
>> and has a speed of less than 60 FPS. Not very impressive. The
>> "Additional Drivers" utility finds nothing. I tried using the ATI
>> proprietary drivers but they didn't work. Apparently some ATI cards
>> are just not supported by the manufacturer, admittedly they are old,
>> but still worked well in 11.10. The problem may lie with the X.org.com
>> people, but I guess you can't expect 6 year old hardware to go on
>> forever. The ATI fgrlx drivers just won't work for such systems as
>> yours and mine.
>>
>> On 16 May 2012 08:37, O. Sinclair<o.sinclair at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have an HP laptop with so-called switchable graphics. One part is Intel
>>> "lean" card and one is ATI Mobile HD 5450.
>>>
>>> I am now on Precise 12.04 AMD64
>>>
>>> There is supposedly 2 ways to shift between the Intel and the ATI cards:
>>> either via something called vgaswitcheroo or by installing the
>>> proprietary
>>> AMD drivers "fglrx", either from Ubuntu repos or from AMD drivers site.
>>>
>>> The "switcheroo" solution works so-so, I can switch off the
>>> powerconsuming
>>> ATI card and rely on my Intel card. Have never really managed to switch
>>> the
>>> other way however.
>>>
>>> With AMD drivers it worked in 11.04 this worked and in 11.10 with
>>> pae-kernel. You switch drivers and reboot (possibly restart x would be
>>> enough) and it is OK until you switch back.
>>>
>>> Since I tried with 64-bit version this has stopped working. The AMD
>>> driver
>>> seem to install but once you try to config x.org you run into various
>>> issues. The most persistent saying:
>>> PowerXpress: '/usr/lib64/fglrx' must not be writable by group or others
>>>
>>> I have googled (well startpage actually) and read forums and bugreports
>>> but
>>> nothing works.
>>>
>>> Anyone using a similar combo on Precise AMD64 and got the ATI fgrlx
>>> drivers
>>> working?
>>>
>>> Am seriously considering revering to pae-kernel (have "only" 4Gb RAM so
>>> should not really make a huge difference).
>>>
> thanks for your reply but my system is less than 2 years old on the market
> and AMD site claims it should be supported (the card that is).
>
> where this "goes bonkers" for me is something in the 64-bit install of fglrx
> - I am not the only one, have found several reports on the issue on the net.
> But no solution that works.
>
> Maybe I should just bite the bullet and try the 32-bit pae kernel again as
> that was the last time I got the AMD drivers to work proper. Though I hate
> not being able to use the full capacity of the system.
>
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