Comments on: Install fglrx in Karmic

By: tiagoboldt

tiagoboldt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:37:57 +0000

@Srinivasa it won’t do any harm, try it out;)

By: Srinivasa

Srinivasa — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:34:22 +0000

Hi, i have Mobility FireGL V5200 on my Thinkpad. Would this same solution work ? i have not tried.

By: Eric TF Bat

Eric TF Bat — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:43:44 +0000

Interesting. That worked for me, on a Toshiba A300 running 32-bit Karmic. Using the xorg-driver-fglrx failed, so I tried with the ATI package (10-2, not 9-12) and it worked. It was either that or the precautionary purge at the start. Now have Compiz running and Jockey says I’m running the right driver, so all is well. Thank you!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:59:53 +0000

Thanks a bunch! I was having trouble on what seemed like a boot hang. My monitor and keyboard would go to sleep after the splash came up. Updating the fglrx driver fixed it!

By: tiagoboldt

tiagoboldt — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:09:17 +0000

Hi Andrew,

So glad I could help you:)

You’re right on the –initial, it configures xorg.conf. Not that sure on why does disabling acpi makes it work, guess no one does, since it’s a closed driver, but it works and since the open-source alternative does not have the same results yet, I’m happy with it:)

By: Andrew Hutcheson

Andrew Hutcheson — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:54:29 +0000

I just wanted to say thanks! After days of scouring the web for information on how to get the drivers to work with the 3650 on my laptop on Karmic, your solution worked! (should anyone ask, I use a toshiba a305-s6845)

For a linux novice like me, the step-by-step guide helped a lot. Though I’m curious, what do the configuration commands do?

As far as I can guess, –initial registers the fglrx driver with xorg.conf, but I’m clueless as to the acpi thing. All I can guess is that it has something to do with power?

Anyway, thanks again!

P.S. I found your post here through a post you made on the Ubuntu forums.