Hi, this is really driving me up the wall now, its making me think they must be a problem with my graphics card. I followed all the instructions from the link to installing ATi drivers from the getting more from K/ubuntu thread, and when it says to check if it works using that flgrxinfo command, i get this, instead of ATi Techonologies: display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: Mesa Home Page OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1) What going on? how come is the drivers not working now? edit** Also tried the following command: sudo modprobe fglrx, and i got: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.15-27-k7/volatile/fglrx.ko': No such file or directory sudo rmmod radeon: ERROR: Module radeon does not exist in /proc/modules root@C0A8080A:/home/will# sudo rmmod ati-agp ERROR: Module ati_agp does not exist in /proc/modules also, seems some stuff is missing in the xorg.conf file, i did not delete it aswell. Code: # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0 InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection Section "Files" # path to defoma fonts FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "i2c" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # /dev/input/event # for USB Identifier "stylus" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to Option "Type" "stylus" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "InputDevice" # /dev/input/event # for USB Identifier "eraser" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to Option "Type" "eraser" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "InputDevice" # /dev/input/event # for USB Identifier "cursor" Driver "wacom" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to Option "Type" "cursor" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "fglrx" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection I go to display, and get this error: the module display could not be loaded.
I am having a bit of a problem as well. I am running Debian (Sid) with Kernel image- 2.6.16-18, I think.... I have downloaded the automated driver from the ATI(AMD) site and followed their instructions. At the end of the process, I get a message the there were errors but I do not get any indication that the driver has not been installed. This is the output of the install log file - I am not sure what readme it is talking about... but I suppose I will have to go back to the site and see.... I am running, as far as I know the latest kernel module so I am not sure what's the meaning of the log.... :dry: