[ltp] driver fglrx on Thinkpad T41 with Ati 7500

Guillermo Latorre linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:26:09 +0100


¡Hello everyone!

I use Ubuntu Dapper, recently upgraded, on my Thinkpad T41. 
I was using Breezy and no problems with 3D acceleration on my ATI Radeon
7500. When I installed Ubuntu, the card was succesfully installed by
Ubuntu during the system installation process. 

That systema was Breezy. Now I have upgraded to Ubuntu Dapper and I have
lost the 3D acceleration. 

I have read many manuals and "ATI and fglrx for 3D" How-to's  but I
can't get it working.
The problem is I can't start a X session with "fglrx" driver
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but it works prefect with "ati" and "radeon"
drivers. The system tries to start X but it can't, and get a "no screens
found" error.
No screens found!!


I have installed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-15-686,
xserver-xorg-driver-ati and xorg-driver-fglrx.

When I try to insert the fglrx module, I get:

root@Will:/home/guille # modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.15-15-686/misc/fglrx.ko):
No such device

I attach my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and the /var/log/Xorg.0.log that I
get when I try to start gdm with the "Driver "fglrx"" activated.

Can you help me?  

Thank you very much,

Guille