Video driver problem on upgrade to Hardy

[NoOp]

On 04/23/2008 07:27 AM, Paolo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This morning I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 9300. And I have a 
> problem with the video driver (Radeon X300). It used to work OK on 7.10 with 
> System > Preferences > Appearance set to "Normal".
> 
> The problem resembles what I read here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/203809
> And at the bottom of that page it says:
> "the issue is fixed by removing fglrx which didn't work where as the free driver 
> did."
> 
> I am a fairly capable computer user, but new to Linux. And I don't know how to 
> "remove fglrx" (nor put it back again, if it turns out to make things even worse!)
> 
> I would be grateful for any advice.
> 
> thanks, Paolo
> 
> 

System|Administration|Synaptic...|Search|fglrx

You'll most likely find that fglrx-control and xorg-driver-fglrx are
installed. If so, right click them and mark for complete removal (that
will ensure any config files also get removed), then 'Apply'.

or from a terminal:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx-control xorg-driver-fglrx

You'll then want to install/reinstall this:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx

reboot.

Note: I'm not sure if you also need to remove xserver-xorg-video-ati or
not. I'd leave it until someone else comes along and tell you otherwise.

After rebooting, go back to Synaptic and check to see if these are
installed (System|Administration|Synaptic...|Search|compiz):

compiz
compiz-core
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
compiz-fusion-plugins-main
compiz-gnome
compiz-plugins
emerald

If not, then install them.

To reinstall the above:

sudo apt-get install fglrx-control xorg-driver-fglrx