[ubuntu-uk] Graphics Card Problems

[Craig]

Last Christmas, one of Santa's elves made a mistake. Instead of buying a
Linux-ready graphics card to give to Craig Horner for Christmas, he
brought him an ATI Radeon X1550, which so far, has been extremely
annoying.
 I have managed to set it up so that it works as far as running Compiz
using this tutorial [1]. It works for that, but whenever I try to run
certain programs which I used to be able to run before the new graphics
card, such as Unreal Tournament GOTY, Jazz Jack Rabbit 2, Google Earth
etc, it just ends the current session and takes me back to the log in
page.
 I don't know what details you need, but here is a copy of fglxrinfo:

> $ fglrxinfo
> display: :0.0  screen: 0
> OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
> OpenGL version string: 2.1.7281 Release

and

> $ glxinfo
> name of display: :1.0
> display: :1  screen: 0
> direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.2
> server glx extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
>     GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
>     GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
>     GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
> client glx vendor string: SGI
> client glx version string: 1.4
> client glx extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
>     GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
>     GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
>     GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
>     GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
>     GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> GLX version: 1.2
> GLX extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
>     GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
>     GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.2 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)
> OpenGL extensions:
>     GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_imaging,
>     GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite,
>     GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
>     GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
>     GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
>     GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
>     GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
>     GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos,
>     GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,
>     GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
>     GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,
>     GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
>     GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_polygon_offset,
>     GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
>     GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
>     GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D,
>     GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
>     GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
>     GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle,
>     GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
>     GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3,
>     GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_INGR_blend_func_separate,
>     GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_NV_blend_square,
>     GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
>     GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
>     GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture,
>     GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
> 
>    visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
>  id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0x2c 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
> 0x2d 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
> 0x2e 32 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 24  8  0  0  0  0  0 0 Ncon
> 0x2f 32 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 Ncon

 It would be great if someone could help me out here. It does seem to
have been done by some people. Please remember that you are talking to a
relatively inexperienced Ubuntu user.
 
 Thanks.



[1] http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gutsy_Installation_Guide