Installing Breezy on HP Pavilion zv6000 (& NTFS problems)

[Gian Piero Carzino]

>>>Just one doubt: why do you mention an RPM? Breezy has all the needed
>>>fglrx packages indeb format:
>>>
>>>$ dpkg -l | grep fgl
>>>ii  fglrx-control                        8.16.20-0ubuntu16.1 Control
>>>   panel for the ATI graphics accelerat
>>>ii  xorg-driver-fglrx                     6.8.0-8.16.20-0ubuntu16.1
>>>   Video driver for ATI graphics accelerators
>>>ii  xorg-driver-fglrx-dev              6.8.0-8.16.20-0ubuntu16.1 Video
>>>driver for ATI graphics accelerators
> 
(snip)
> Does this mean that you uninstalled GLcore, glx and int10?
> If not, what does unload mean?

I mean I commented out (# on first column) the lines:
 Load "GLcore"
 Load "glx"
 Load "int10"
in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf

> Do you have your screen running at native resolution? (1280 X 800, right?)

Yes

> Do you have 3D acceleration with the fglrx driver?

NO. I have no 3D acceleration (The package description says it provides
hardware OpenGL; maybe I was too conservative unloading also glx, but
the ATI driver continued to refuse to load, so when I found a
combination that worked, I stopped trying).

> The download I tried from ATI had an Ubuntu option but I couldn't get it to
> work.

Well, as Filipe Bonjour has suggested, it's far better to use the
packages from the Ubuntu repositories: they can be installed with no
harm with Synaptic (simply check that "restricted" is included in the
repository list).
I installed:
fglrx-control
and
xorg-driver-fglrx
then
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
(remember to choose fglrx as driver, then select resolution 1280x800 and
unselect the default ones)
then commented out in the xorg.conf just generated the lines indicated above

> I am still at a beginner level but would like to have my HP ZV6270US display
> working properly.
> 
> Are you using the AMD 64bit kernel?

Yes

> Thanks,
> Bradley
> 

Bye

-- 
Gian Piero Carzino
<gcarzino at tiscali.it>