[TriLUG] Feisty was a b*tch of an upgrade

[Andrew C. Oliver]

I had fglrx.  I did attempt to upgrade with the proprietary drivers 
installed but did re-enable the one that came with the kernel first.  
Installing from scratch, I allowed it to do I assume the free drivers by 
default.  This failed.  I then had to manually do the X/driver install + 
copy an old Xorg.conf. 

-andy

Sean Myers wrote:
> Just a thought...did you upgrade with the free drivers installed, or 
> fglrx? Also, what card are you running?
>
> As for the warning, that's definitely true. Installing the ATI drivers 
> is a convoluted enough process when compared to the nvidia without the 
> added joy of drivers that aren't really compatible with your kernel.
>
> Does any have any stories of a simple ATI card install involving an X 
> server? If so, was 3d acceleration also involved?
>
> -- 
> Sean Myers
> System Administrator
> American Research Institute
> (919) 228-4961
>
>
> Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
>> Yeah I did get it working.  I don't know what went wrong that I 
>> couldn't get them installed w/o clean install.  I didn't do anything 
>> different.  I suspect something stuck a bad SO somewhere.  I was 
>> aware of everything you mention below.  I just wanted to warn people 
>> "Feisty is not the same upgrade as Edgy if you have ATI"...  I had 
>> previously/continue using the proprietary drivers.  In part because 
>> the Feisty installer no longer seems to recognize my card and does 
>> not put a compatible w/free drivers device string in the Xorg.conf.
>> BTW anyone get the ATI Catalyst control center to meaningfully work?  
>> I can change resolutions but nothing else seems to have a meaningful 
>> effect (esp the dual monitor part).
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>> Sean Myers wrote:
>>> I can't speak for the free drivers, but ATI's fglrx drivers don't 
>>> officially have support the 2.6.20 kernel until 8.36:
>>>
>>> http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.36.5.html#184277
>>>
>>> The driver version in feisty's repos is 8.34:
>>>
>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/misc/xorg-driver-fglrx
>>>
>>> Here's a wiki page that'll get you set up with the latest fglrx 
>>> drivers (yay, we get to build kernel modules!):
>>>
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
>>>
>>> I'm using an X1950GT now, so the ATI drivers are my only option at 
>>> this time. While I'm spamming links, here's wiki page of the free 
>>> Radeon driver:
>>>
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Sean Myers
>>> System Administrator
>>> American Research Institute
>>> (919) 228-4961
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
>>>> I started out on 6.06, upgraded to Edgy and now to Feisty.  Edgy 
>>>> was a pretty painless upgrade with only the swap issue being kinda 
>>>> irritating and requiring effort/thought/google.
>>>> Feisty disabled X windows for starters...  For some reason I 
>>>> couldn't get either the free or proprietary ATI drivers to install 
>>>> after this (this may be partly me as for some reason I occasionally 
>>>> block on something even if I've done it 100 times)...   I ended up 
>>>> having to copy my stuff off to another drive and do a re-install 
>>>> from scratch, then the video STILL didn't work until I manually 
>>>> installed the proprietary drivers and used an old X configuration 
>>>> (I'd tried that before the clean install too).
>>>>
>>>> All in all FUN to do right before a conference.  I never did get my 
>>>> or any other projector working again!  So I did LinuxFest on OS 
>>>> X....Ian would be proud.
>>>>
>>>> -Andy
>>