Lenovo T60p 10.04 LTS upgrade and 2nd video monitor -- which driver?

[Bill Moseley]

To follow up on my own post:

Turned out to be a kernel problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/linux/+bug/537640

And I "fixed" by updating to a newer kernel, as described in the bug, from
here:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-lucid/

I say "fixed" because the laptop can only sometimes now wake from a sleep
where it worked fine before the upgrade to 10.04LTS.



On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:

> This T60p has  ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5250].  After
> upgrading to 10.04LTS a few days ago the 2nd monitor connected to the
> laptop's VGA plug had a very wavy display.  Pretty much impossible to read.
>
> I installed the fglrx driver and after rebooting and selecting an earlier
> kernel ( Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, kernel 2.6.31-22-generic instead of Ubuntu
> 10.04.1 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-25-generic) both monitors work.
>
> But, I don't have compiz any more.
>
> I do have "Proprietary drives for devices (restricted)" checked, and
> Admin->Hardware Drives shows no proprietary drivers.  aticonfig says:
>
> $ aticonfig
> aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
>
> Seems like in the past after an upgrade I get a notification in the Gnome
> taskbar that a driver is available.  But, I'm not seeing that now.  But, it
> also seems like every upgrade on this old laptop requires a day of messing
> with it to get the video running.
>
> Anyone know the correct way to get this card working again with the current
> kernel?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> --
> Bill Moseley
> moseley at hank.org
>



-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
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