<div dir="ltr">Hello, I'm having some trouble with my Ubuntu installation (8.04, the latest LTS release). The video drivers do not function properly. When I use the radeon driver, i can't get DRI. When I use the fglrx (proprietary) driver from ATI, the only thing I get is a white screen after logging in, with my cursor on it. I use the following hardware configuration: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor, nforce3 chipset, 512 MB memory and an ATI Radeon 9800 pro graphics card. (More information about my hardware can be found at <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=917810">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=917810</a>, the thread at the forums I started about this subject. It is attached in "hardware.txt".) Tracing various logs I've found the following suspected messages: messages, kern.log, syslog, dmesg: <pre class="alt2" dir="ltr" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 66px; text-align: left;"> agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0 agpgart: Setting up Nforce3 AGP. agpgart: aperture base > 4G</pre> And in xorg.0.log (using the radeon driver): <pre class="alt2" dir="ltr" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 498px; text-align: left;"> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 7 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0 [...] //This seems ok drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK) drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 7 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0 [...] (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI. (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module. [...] (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and newer. (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled [...] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable </pre> Before sending this mail i've done a lot of research. Not only on google, but also on various fora (also on ubuntuforums and on the unofficial ATI forum). The info I found there was not appliable on my hardware. Thanks in advance, Bas Jacobs </div>