ATI blues

[Diego De Stefani]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 21:38, federico granara wrote:
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc
> Radeon R250
> Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 01)
> 1- Do you think that this problem will take more time to be solved by
> ATI? As i understand, it seems a problem with their 8.25.x drivers.

you are right. The atest (maybe two) versions of fglrx driver are reportd not 
to work with r2** chip, as described here:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33856854

Moreover, there seems to be an additional issue with your specific hardware 
(i've a HPzt3000 which is a very similar laptop), since the driver cannot 
detect the correct monitor. You can find a workaround here:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Dapper_Installation_Guide#HP_zt3000_.2F_Compaq_nx7000

In any case, fglrx driver sucks. Next time i'll buy nvidia.

> Anyway, i'd be happy if i could use DRI with the opensource "ati" driver .
> But after a fresh dapper install, i have only 2D on my laptop:

this is really strange, i've the very same graphics card and i have direct 
rendering enabled with open source driver.
Try to run:
export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
and then:
glxinfo
to see what errors you get