Can't get new Radeon 9600se working

[phill]

1) Sounds like an issue with the monitor cable? I know if I don't hold
my tongue the right way the colours are all pink (lacking blue/green).
Perhaps try another monitor just to check that, if you can. 

2) I'm not sure what could be causing the lockups, try running fglrxinfo
to check that you're using the binary ATi drivers GL implementation. For
cards >9250 (ie 9500/9600/9700 on so on) the kernel ATi driver has no 3D
acceleration, so it's worth getting fglrx working if you want to play
some games :) 

-phill

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 21:00 +1100, Lex Hider wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Does anyone else have a Radeon 9600se that they have working well with
> Ubuntu?
> 
> It's only a couple of hours old so I don't know much about setting it
> up. It's just replaced an old pci voodoo3 which has been working
> flawlessly with ubuntu for the past few weeks. I haven't tried any other
> OS' to see if it's ubuntu specific but I'll probably bung on a copy of
> XP on a partition some time tomorrow.
> 
> 1)
> Anyway, after a fresh Warty install I get GDM and log in to gnome and
> the colours are REALLY washed out. I don't even know that that's the
> right way to describe it. For example, the cpu monitor on the panel is
> now light yellow. Probably the best indication is to go into desktop
> background chooser and into color selection. Instead of seeing all the
> primary and main colours there aren't any reds, browns, greens. 
> 
> 2)
> I also tried out the binary driver thing from the wiki. I rebooted and
> everything was working except after a short while the screen would turn
> itself of. When I turned the monitor on and off it came up with a non
> responding screen whited out. I couldn't kill X-windows or change to a
> console.
> 
> Additionally any experimenting with GL, [screensavers, tuxracer]
> instantally locked the system and I was forced to hit the reset button.
> 
> 
> 
> Obviously the color thing is more important to me than the 3d thing
> right now,  which could just be a crappy ati driver I suppose.
> 
> Thanking you in advance,
> 
> Lex.
> 
> PS
> Oh yeah, the v/ card is a powercolor if that matters.
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