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post #21 of 29
3/17/07 at 9:45pm
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Hey seablade. Where to start . . .

I can download, but cannot install fglrx. Why? Beats the hell out of me!

Tried to install the ATI downloader because nothing else seemed to work. Again, it would download but would not install.

The keystrokes you mentioned yesterday still, with the exception of Alt F1, don't work. I think something useful may be on the screen when using this combination, but the screen is blurred badly by the colors and terrible text. Nothing is legible. Should post a screen shot, but at the moment, am on a different machine.

At one point I thought I was modifying xorg. Went to the Ubuntu forums and thought I was following instructions. But . . . apparently not only did I not modify xorg, I'm not really even sure what xorg is, it seems. Will have to do even more reading. So many unfamiliar terms and techniques - my brain is turning to mush - well, ok, it's becoming even mushier!

Nothing I've tried so far has brought as an option, resolutions any higher than 1600x1200. Something I've done, though, blew that particular option away. What's left is 600x400, or thereabouts.

Not sure what to try next and though I'm becoming very flustered, I'm too damn stubborn to try another distro until I get this one right. I may, however, simply toss the whole damn OS (with the stinkin' computer into which it's installed) RIGHT OUT THE DAMN WINDOW!!

Thanks for hanging in there with me.
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post #22 of 29
3/17/07 at 10:33pm
i'll try to walk you through step by step here...see if this gets you moving in the right direction. NOTE: linux is case-sensitive. so if i type something in CAPS, it better be in CAPS first get the latest drivers here: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-radeon.html (which i assume you already have) next, crack open terminal and login as root
Code:
sudo su
password:
then run the installer (assume you d/led to desktop)
Code:
cd /home/yourusername/Desktop
sh ati-driver-installer-8.34.8-x86.x86_64.run
follow onscreen instructions. fair enough. still in terminal: (ati config is a config tool that comes with the drivers, automatically edits and backs up your xorg.conf)
Code:
ati-config
reboot. hope you don't get the blue screen of death. if stuff still looks bad... then you gotta get down and dirty. first things first, make sure the module is properly loaded:
Code:
lsmod
this shows you all the loaded modules, look for fglrx, if its there, keep going. then edit xorg.conf [/code] gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf[/code] and make it look like:
Code:
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)

Section "Files"
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 "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
# path to defoma fonts
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" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
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 "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-51
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1920x1600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1920x1600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1920x1600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1920x1600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
and like seablade said..if all else fails get elive... or pclinuxos2007 (which is what i am currently using)
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post #23 of 29
3/17/07 at 10:58pm
for the record, you dont need fglrx (and thus xgl) to run beryl on an ati machine. i've successfully gotten aiglx (through ati drivers) to run in pclinuxos and ubuntu....imo works better than xgl too.
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post #24 of 29
3/18/07 at 12:48am
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Originally Posted by bmwrob
Hey seablade. Where to start . . .

I can download, but cannot install fglrx. Why? Beats the hell out of me!

Tried to install the ATI downloader because nothing else seemed to work. Again, it would download but would not install.

The keystrokes you mentioned yesterday still, with the exception of Alt F1, don't work. I think something useful may be on the screen when using this combination, but the screen is blurred badly by the colors and terrible text. Nothing is legible. Should post a screen shot, but at the moment, am on a different machine.

At one point I thought I was modifying xorg. Went to the Ubuntu forums and thought I was following instructions. But . . . apparently not only did I not modify xorg, I'm not really even sure what xorg is, it seems. Will have to do even more reading. So many unfamiliar terms and techniques - my brain is turning to mush - well, ok, it's becoming even mushier!

Nothing I've tried so far has brought as an option, resolutions any higher than 1600x1200. Something I've done, though, blew that particular option away. What's left is 600x400, or thereabouts.

Not sure what to try next and though I'm becoming very flustered, I'm too damn stubborn to try another distro until I get this one right. I may, however, simply toss the whole damn OS (with the stinkin' computer into which it's installed) RIGHT OUT THE DAMN WINDOW!!

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

Well ABF hit it right on the head with the first command he told you to use I think, it sounds suspiciously like you were doing those things as a regular user, which does not have the permissions to do them. the 'sudo su' command he told you to execute first will allow you to run all commands following on THAT PROMPT(Meaning if you open or use another prompt it will not be the same) as root.

The way you can tell you are root is that the prompt will end in a # instead of >

What concerns me though is your description of the console as being screwed up texts. What you are describing is the OPPOSITE of what I would expect from an incorrectly set up frame buffer, but I don't know where else to look on that right off hand.

But at any rate I can help tackle that one later, do you have a prompt when you switch to your F1 screen? If not hit escape and see if you do then? It will probably ask for your login first of course.

Try what ABF said and typed exactly, and see if that helps. Otherwise what I may do is see if we can set up a VNC or ssh session so I can guide you through it if yall don't get anywhere.

ABF(Or BT, BigE, etc) is SSH or VNC set up by default on ubuntu? If so you know what ports it uses by default in case we need to set up port fowarding on a firewall?

Seablade
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post #25 of 29
3/18/07 at 12:42pm
havent tried vnc in ubuntu so wouldn't know. the best i can tell you is that tightvnc works exceptionally well for me, i've gotten tightvnc working on pclinuxos--->pclinuxos as well as xp ---->pclos and pclos--->xp, hell, evne my axim x50 through vnc viewer can do pclos or xp.... so that works really well for me. so my recommendation would be go with tightvnc since its very easy to configure.
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post #26 of 29
3/20/07 at 3:52am

wide wacom

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Originally Posted by bigtrouble77
I have a wacom tablet. It works, but it has issues with my laptop's wide screen. It's very frustrating to work with. I find that I have to constantly lift the pen so that it re-orientates itself.

Wacom now have widescreen (16:10) tablets. They look cool and are expensive ;-)

http://www.wacom-europe.com/int/prod...lang=en&pdx=35
http://creativebits.org/wacom_widescreen_tablet_review
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post #27 of 29
3/22/07 at 5:33am
Thread Starter 
Just in case anyone is still interested, I finally found instructions to install the damn ATI drivers here.

Finally, after a mere eight days ( ) the resolution is correct.

Thanks to all.
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post #28 of 29
3/22/07 at 6:09am
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Originally Posted by bmwrob
Just in case anyone is still interested, I finally found instructions to install the damn ATI drivers here.

Finally, after a mere eight days ( ) the resolution is correct.

Thanks to all.

Have you added a link from the Ubuntu community documentation wiki to those instructions? To save anyone else the eight days pain ...
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post #29 of 29
3/22/07 at 9:48pm
how did I miss Rob using linux??

glad to hear you got it working... I shoulda checked here sooner (not that I could have helped given that ATI is the bane of my existence.)
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