Video driver problem on upgrade to Hardy

[Edward Dunagin]

Hello Paolo,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:24 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
>  >
Like you I installed 8.04. I did it on a separate partition, but just
the same had problems with the audio, not the video.

I could get sound from all but the plugins for my browsers. I went
round and round with it and finally tried to load Mplayer. This told
me I did not have the correct codexs and gave me a chance to download
them.

So don't give up, Ubuntu and all will help you.

Peace................ed



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