Radeon 9250 in Ubuntu

[Vincent Trouilliez]

smithveg <smithveg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Before i receiving your reply, i had try to use the ATI driver, it seems can
> not work.
> So, i try yours free version.
> 
> I type 'sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf' in terminal. Then do whatever you're
> asking,
> This is my device section,
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]"
>     Driver        "radeon" (i change from fglyx to radeon)
>     BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
> ##
> then i restart,
> then i type, glxinfo |grep rendering, the result is NO,
> smith at smith-host:~$ glxinfo | grep rendering
> direct rendering: No
> 
> What can i do now? Do i need to uninstall the previous?

Yes. I had the same problem you are having. I thought the "radeon" driver wasn't working.... until I removed completely all traces of the "fglrx" driver. And then, all by magic, the Radeon driver worked :-)

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Vince