Binary package hint: xorg
flgrx works with Jaunty. However with Karmic Alpha-4, the flgrx just displays black, and turns off the monitor. This occurs both with the old ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run driver that I downloaded that work fine with Jaunty, and the flgrx drivers installed by the restricted driver manager. Ctrl-Alt-F1 does not do anything.
$ lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]
This bug is reported from Jaunty, as I cannot use apport without X, and also I cannot boot into textmode either due to Bug #203385.
The radeon driver works fine (except that it doesn't support 3D acceleration on this card).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-14-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 01:19:55 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64
This breakage was due to changes in dkms that were not reflected in the version of -fglrx available at the time of alpha-4. I've confirmed the presence of the bug, and verified it is solved with the new -fglrx 8.66 on an HD4850.